SPRING
To welcome again the beauties of Spring
The lark and the mavis in harmony sing.
Their melody sweet ascending the sky,
Resounds o’er the meadows, “The winter is by.”
And ilka bit birdie, in rapturous glee,
By Crookston and Staneley and famed Colinslee,
By Cartha’s dark stream and dear Erskine Ferry,
The birdies are singing gladly and merry.
To welcome the Spring in melodious song
The birdies are singing all the daylong.
The fiddle and cornet, fife and trombone
Ne’er sounded a sweeter and merrier tone.
Music sae sweet ne’er ascended the sky
Than the blithe little birdies sweet lullaby.
Their rapturous joy, ’neath rays of sunshine,
Recall unto memory the days o’ lang syne.
