Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove,
The linnet and thrush say "
I love and I love!"
In the winter they're silent, the wind is so
strong;
What it says
I don't know, but it sings a loud song.
But
green leaves, and blossoms, and
sunny warm weather,
And singing and loving - all come back together.
But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love,
The green fields below him, the
blue sky above,
That he sings, and he sings, and for ever sings he,
"I love my Love, and my Love loves me."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge