The Past Came With Me

Wherever i go to my past goes with me And often in fancy i hear and i see In Spring a pink breasted chaffinch singing on a leafy birch tree Such beauty that lives on in the memory The sights and the sounds live in my mind today That came with me to here from a place far away Where i grew to love Nature when i was a boy And learning of her ways i still do enjoy When the cool winds of April from the hills did blow The little mottled brown dunnock sang in the hedgerow And the dark brown river bird dipper with breast white as snow Sang on a rock in the stream where the rapids did flow Yes the past came with me from a place far away And in my mind it is living today.