A Male Chaffinch Is Singing

A voice from the past that to memory belong In fancy i do hear the male chaffinch on song On a leafy birch tree in the prime of the May From where i now live in distance far away A voice i grew to love when i was a boy Good memories do remain as a source of joy Of a pink breasted feathered songster of the spring of the year His twittering song such a joy for to hear The great gift of memory such a marvelous thing My thoughts often take me to a far away Spring When bluebells were in bloom on the ditch of the bohreen So pleasant the memories of beauty i have seen A male chaffinch is singing on a leafy birch tree And nature is at her greenest everywhere around me.