To all kind folk who make delightful gar-
dens

Where we may live,

Enjoying days and nights of busy leisure
Amid devices fashioned for our pleasure,

Our thanks we give.

For dancing-lawns and gravelled jousting-
l places,

For guardian trees,
For ferny thickets strewn with moss-grown

mountains

And lily-pools and waterfalls and foun-
tains

For all of these.
Charged are we also by our little comrades

The gentle birds,
That we their messages of thanks should

bring you,

Since they from grateful hearts can only sing
you

Songs without words.