"Honeybird"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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Spring is here and its fragrance wafting
Like love aloft on the warming breeze
Brings me visions of colors dancing
The fair romancing of birds and bees

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	My heart is given, I'll take no other
	Though I know well we shall never meet
	O, bring me news of my distant lover
	And your reward shall be sure and sweet

Honeybird, fly to my open window
And drink your fill of my honeyed breast
Tell me the name of the one who sent you
The name of the one that I love the best

	Others before you have come to see me
	But none of them whispered my lover's name
	My flowing nectar I gave them freely
	But into my bosom they never came

Honeybird, light on my waiting finger
And I will treat with you, taste for taste
My lover's fragrance, O, let it linger
Though well I know you must go in haste

	Others have come here to ply their treasure
	But none of them carried my love's perfume
	I offered them honey in equal measure
	But none of them ever came near my womb

Honeybird, go now and share your beauty
With other lovers in other fields
Well and true you have done your duty
Now I shall nurture its precious yield

	Grow, my child, the sap is streaming
	Drink deep the summer and ripen slow
	And all the while there'll be time for dreaming
	Of all of the honeybirds you shall know