[00:00.543]A Birthday
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[00:04.726]My heart is like a singing bird
[00:07.307]Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
[00:10.240]My heart is like an apple-tree
[00:11.923]Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
[00:16.017]My heart is like a rainbow shell
[00:17.934]That paddles in a halcyon sea;
[00:21.092]My heart is gladder than all these
[00:24.819]Because my love is come to me.
[00:26.707]
[00:28.019]Raise me a dais of silk and down;
[00:30.647]Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
[00:33.483]Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
[00:35.516]And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
[00:38.619]Work it in gold and silver grapes,
[00:41.123]In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
[00:44.164]Because the birthday of my life
[00:46.278]Is come, my love is come to me.

A Birthday
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.