From above and far away I heard them
Birds!
I’ve seldom heard birds sing
these birds didn’t disappoint.
Their twittering conversations filled
the warm spring afternoon,
rising above the sound of humanity
on foot, on bicycles,
orange mo-peds,
shining chrome and black motorcycles,
cars, vans and trucks washed
in the dirt of splashing into spring
Above it all
the birds took my heart to the sky.
“The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree
above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood.”
~ L.M.Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915
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