Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove, <br />The linnet, and thrush say, 'I love and I love!' <br />In the winter they're silent, the wind is so strong; <br />What it says I don't know, but it sings a loud song. <br />But green leaves and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, <br />And singing, and loving, all come back together. <br />Then the lark is so brimful of gladness and love, <br />The green fields below him, the blue sky above, <br />That he sings, and he sings, and forever sings he-- <br />'I love my Love, and my Love loves me!'<br /><br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/answer-to-a-child-s-question/
