What do you think I saw to-day when I arose at dawn? <br />Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn! <br />Bobbing here, and bowing there, gossiping away, <br />And how I wished that you were there to see the merry play! <br /> <br />But you were snug abed, my boy, blankets to your chin, <br />Nor dreamed of dancing birds without or sunbeams dancing in. <br />Grey Thrush, he piped the tune for them. I peeped out through the glass <br />Between the window curtains, and I saw them on the grass - <br /> <br />Merry little fairy folk, dancing up and down, <br />Blue bonnet, yellow skirt, cloaks of grey and brown, <br />Underneath the wattle-tree, silver in the dawn, <br />Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn.<br /><br />Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dawn-dance/
