Faith at Sunrise

Faith, a house sparrow, sings at dawn

Now that the little light has come
Peeking through leaves to her little nest home
Up in a maple tree, Faith sings the song
That every house sparrow sings at dawn.

Other house sparrows in bushes nearby
Join the dawn choir and the little birds cry
Tweet pause tweet pause chirp pause tweet
“I have faith that again we’ll meet.”

They sing that their fledglings will learn to fly
And that corn and seeds will wait nearby
They sing that no claw or sting will stop
The day, which will quench thirst like a dewdrop.