"A songbird came to me"

A songbird came to me
It sang a song that set me free
From heights of trees
To distant seas
From windswept dunes
To glades under-moon
The song that set me free

I listened well
Till midnight belled
But still I held
And I held well
I listend to that song
Dismissed the gongs
Till deep dreaming fell

A song I once heard
From the voice of a bird
Sweet music without words
That caused my heart to stir
That I now write and I rhyme
About the time
When sang softly that songbird

Ex Tempore LVI
M.M. — 29-Jul-2013