I hear the birds come greet me in my morning They sing the songs of love in tongues of ages past And all the while a vision is unfolding The Moorhen pipes at me 'Don't sleep the day away' And so with cautious steps I tread A measured path through vale and rook And many signs you'd want to take me with you And I go down to the Landing Heron's Flood flows on storm-clothed As the harbour lights guide the wanderers home I see the sun come greet me in his dawning He holds the seed of life within his aged hands And in the sky a vast procession streaming Royal banners held aloft to mark the halcyon time And so I walk in meads below Amongst the springs and weevil-gall In myriad throngs the grass will take me with you And I climb up to the Hawk's Throne Cragshorn lies at Umbrian As the marram-slopes span the sapient sky I feel the night come bidding me his greeting He draws a glowing veil upon a sleepy world And in the sky the stars roll through the heavens Below, the new-hatched dove stares wondrously above And so to Esma I am come To forge a passageway through time And all too soon you'd come to take me with you And I strike north to the veldt-plains Dorn Ridge melts in snow-gold As the Moorhen pipes the pinkery moon Birdsong so sweetly, hear them calling you Birdsong so sweetly, hark they're calling you Birdsong so sweetly, hear them calling you Birdsong so sweetly, hear them calling you Birdsong so sweetly, hark they're calling you Birdsong so sweetly LyricWiki