I will turn no tunes but the tunes of the winds and the waters.

I know that the song of the bird is remembered, it changes not;

And I know that the song of the wind is unremembered;

But it stirs the ground of the heart while the song is a-singing,

And it flows from a vaster source than the song of the bird.

So I will sing the song of the wind in the long grass, by the river,

And the song of the wind in the dry and copper-brown oak-leaves,

In the autumnal season, so beautiful and sad,

And the song of the wind in the green cool ranks of the corn

As it stirs very lightly in the summer,