What is song's eternity?
Come and see
Can it noise and bustle be?
Come and see
Praises sung or praises said
Can it be?
Wait awhile and these are dead
Sigh, sigh
Be they high or lowly bred
They die
What is song's eternity?
Come and see
Melodies of earth and sky
Here they be
Song once sung to Adam's ears
Can it be?
Ballads of six thousand years
Thrive, thrive
Songs awaken with the spheres
Alive
Mighty songs that miss decay
What are they?
Crowds and cities pa** away
Like a day
Books are out and books are read
What are they?
Years will lay them with the dead
Sigh, sigh
Trifles unto nothing wed
They die
Dreamers, mark the honey bee
Mark the tree
Where the blue cap "tootle tee"
Sings a glee
Sung to Adam and to Eve
Here they be.
When floods covered every bough
Noah's ark
Heard that ballad singing now
Hark, hark
"Tootle tootle tootle tee"
Can it be
Pride and fame must shadows be?
Come and see
Every season owns her own
Bird and bee
Sing creation's music on
Nature's glee
Is in every mood and tone
Eternity