PIPER’S WOOD
Reading edition
In Minsterworth when March is in, And Spring begins to gild the days, Oh! then starts up a joyous din, For Piper’s Wood is full of praise, Because the birds deem winter gone And welcome the returning sun. Blackbird and thrush and robin dear Within that wood try over all The songs they mean to shout so clear Before green leaves grow red and fall; And harkening in its shadows you Must needs sing out of Summer too.