Anthony Phillips - Birdsong and Reprise lyrics

I hear the birds come greet me in my morning They sing the songs of love in tongues of ages past And all the while a vision is unfolding The moorhen pipes at me, "don't sleep the day away" And so with cautious steps I tread A measured path through vale and rook And many signs you'd want to take me with you And I go down to the Landing Heron's Flood flows on storm-clothed As the harbour lights guide the wanderers home I see the sun come greet me in his dawning He holds the seed of life within his aged hands And, in the sky, a vast procession streaming Royal banners held aloft to mark the halcyon time And so I walk in meadows below Amongst the springs and weevil-gall In myriad throngs the gra** will take me with you And I climb up to the Hawk's Throne Cragshorn lies at Umbrian And the marram-slopes span the sapient sky I feel the night come bidding me his greeting He draws a glowing veil upon a sleepy world And in the sky the stars roll through the heavens Below, the new-hatched dove stares wondrously above And so to Esma I am come To forge a pa**ageway through time And all too soon, you'd come to take me with you And I strike north to the veld-plains Dorn Ridge melts in snow-gold As the Moorhen pipes the pinkery moon Birdsong, so sweetly, hear them calling you Birdsong, so sweetly, hear them calling you