Icy wind of night be gone. This is not your domain.

In the sky a bird was heard to cry.

Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sound

Belied a deathly silence that lay all around.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

nd a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sunflakes settle on the ground.

asking in the sunshine of a by-gone afternoon,

ringing sounds of yesterday into this city doom.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

nd a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sunflakes covering the ground.

asking in the sunshine of a by-gone afternoon,

ringing sounds of yesterday into my city doom.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

nd a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.