Jacinta's 5th Birthday Party

There was a young girl who lived across
The blue white capped mountains of the sea
She loved to dance with the springtime sun
Dancing to the eternal song of Faerie
Dancing to the tune of the harp and flutes
Jumping to the air in half time salutes

She closes her eyes, floats off to dreams
Hazy visions of the ageless queen
Oak trees swaying in the buoyant mists
Round the mistletoe crowned grove so green
Whistling, enraptured by the magic of the song
The grass stains the footprints of the throng

She would laugh at the blue painted men
Beating their drums of tightly stretched skin
And the didgeridoo of the Dreamtime
Mingling with the beat note filled din
Each jubilant song rejoicing life
As the salmon reels, playing his fife

The light dampens the strength of the fire
As the sun gives birth to the springtime dawn
And her eyes twitch and flutter awake
Her lips stretch and strain in a morning yawn
When the land of the ever young fades from view
Her dreams won't flag, as she laughs in the dew

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