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Silent Birdsong

I hear the birds chirping
A lovely morning song
Do they always sing
Quite this vibrantly?

It seems their song
Is most bright
On spring dawns
Bright and clear

Yet when the day
Dawns dark and cold
Full of storm
Or winter gloom

I don't recall
Quite the same chorus
If even a solitary note
In the silence of those dawns

Perhaps therein is the key
Not neverending song
But that silence is part
Of the larger harmony

 

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