Now Green the Grass

Now green the grass and trim the lawn The birds are singing dawn to dawn The trees are budding – as they will Now spring is here the woods to fill The stones are back upon the wall From which they fell away last fall A pot of pansies on the step Will greet the sun with hands outstretched – My love is dancing on the day She beckons me to fields away And I shall join her ‘ere too long And dance with her upon the lawn Where grasses grow and flowers bloom We’ll dance away the afternoon As songbirds sing from dawn to dawn – Now green the grass and trim the lawn