Slightly Foxed Secondhand Books, Oamaru

A Lesson from the Birds

The birds of autumn sweetly sing
Before the cold of winter stings;
But sweeter is their song in spring,
For greater seem the joys it brings.

Go, learn a lesson from the birds
That sing ofttimes through cloud and storm;
Could be their songs translated words,
They'd lighten care and life transform.

- Norman Cameron, Nature's Melody - Poems on Nature (1935)