Calaveras: Music

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• MP3 short clip, lo-fi play (modem)

Green Girl is the leaf-clad spring spirit, bringing fertility, mischief and irrepressible new life to the world.

Leaf-faced elf of spring has spoken
Leaving me like quaking aspen
Rooted deep but lightly shaking
In the buffered breeze

She brings light and flights of fancy
Stolen from the God of dance she
Flits and flies before my eyes and
Kisses all she sees

Toad and swallow rose and weed
Know the green girl’s every deed
On April wings at blazing speed
The green girl comes to me

Green girl tiptoes cross my lawn
And lifts the summer sun beyond
She stutters in the waking wind
And shakes the berry vine

She of wine and she of sorrow
She of lovers in the meadow
She who promises tomorrow’s
Pleasures we will find

Toad and swallow rose and weed
Know the green girl’s every deed
She makes the sap-veined pine tree bleed
As she comes to me

There is nothing I can teach her
Bursts like bubbles if I touch her
Playful star I only see her
When I look away

Toad and swallow rose and weed
Know the green girl’s every deed
In every shoot and every seed
The green girl comes to me