Lines On Seeing A Lyrebird

We walked up through Sherbrooke forest one sunday evening in middle Spring On the ninth day of October listening to wild songbirds sing I was with a lovely lady one whom I consider brave Nature lover Janice Trencher from the high hills of Belgrave In the twilight of the evening rain fell from a sunless sky And behind clouds the sun was hiding day now had the darkening eye But the little birds were singing carolling their songs of joy For their audience two humans Janice E Trencher and I. We had come in search of lyrebird, lyrebird we had come to see Lyrebird quite near to extinction all ornithologists agree, Lyrebird like the cool damp evenings well informed sources say Maybe we might see a lyrebird this might be our lucky day. Saw pheasant sized type bird fly upward to low branch of gum tree That, that there is a lyrebird Janice whispered unto me And on much closer inspection Janice proved so very right 'Twas a wild born superb lyrebird felt my pulses race with delight. It would have been much better had the evening been more bright As we did not have good view of him due to the fading light Then he flew off from the gum tree with slow and awkard flight To not too distant pine tree for to shelter for the night. I have a dream a good dream that in some future day That I will watch male lyrebird in his courtship display But is that asking too much? how lucky can one be A male lyrebird at his courtship dance few humans ever see. In Belgrave's Sherbrooke forest beneath a darkening sky We saw rare superb lyrebird J.E.Trencher and I On an evening in October made damp by drizzling rain A memory to cherish and a memory to retain.