Little specks of yellow and black
Trilling, sweetly, on the soft pine limb,
It is magic to see and hear you.
Your perfect song, to me, is a hymn.
I have waited all winter long
To come and to sit by this river,
And now, here on my first foray,
I meet you - and how you deliver!
There are now four of you gold birds
Gracing the tall erect evergreen.
Odd, that you pick a winter tree
Now that finally spring can be seen.
Still, that tree, it looks soft and fresh
Bedecked in its dangling cone earrings
And glowing jewels of feathers-
Wild canary's the look; view clearings.
Little specks of yellow and black
Trilling, sweetly, on the soft pine limb,
It's magic to see and hear you.
Your appearance today is no whim.