Childhood III

In the woods there is a bird
III - Childhood Joan Baez
His song stops you and makes blush.
There is a clock that does not strikes.
There is a hollow with a nest of white beasts.
There is a cathedral that goes down and a lake that comes up.
There is a little carriage abandoned in the trees, or running down the lane, beribboned.
There is a company of child actors in costume,
glimpsed on the road through the edge of the woods.
And then, when you are hungry and thirsty, there is someone who drives you away.