THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.
The smiling morn, the breathing spring
Invite the tuneful birds to sing.
And while they warble from each spray
Love meets the universal lay,
Let us, Amanda timely wise,
Like them improve the hour that flies,
And in soft raptures waste the day,
Among the birks of Invermay.
For soon the winter of the year,
And age life’s winter, will appear!
At this thy living bloom will fade,
As that will strip the verdant shade;
Our taste of pleasure then is o’er,
The feather’d songsters are no more,
And when they droop and we decay,
Adieu the birks of Invermay.
The lav’rock now and lintie’s sing,
The rocks around with echoes ring,
The mavis and the blackbird vie,
In tuneful strains to glad the day;
The woods now bear their summer suits.
To mirth all nature now invites;
Let us be blythsome light and gay,
Amongst the birks of Invermay:
Behold the hills and vales around.
With lowing herds and flocks abound
The wanton kids and frisking lambs,
Gambol and dance about their dams,
The busy bees with burning noise,
And all the reptile kind rejoice;
Let us like them, then sing and play,
About the birks of Invermay.
Hark how the waters as they fall,
Loudly my love to gladness call;
The wanton waves sport in the beams,
And fishes play throughout the stream.
The circling sun does now advance,
And all the planets round him dance
Let us as joyful be as they
Among the birks of Invermay.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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