You'd say, 'Ah, what a happy mood

The Master must be in today,

To think such thoughts,'

That's what you'd say."

"If I could whisper you all I've heard,"

Said the Old Fool in the fern,

"You'd never say the song of a bird.

You'd say, 'I'll listen, and p'raps I'll learn

One word of His joy as He passed this way,

One syllable more,'