The sunlight speaks, it’s voice is a bird. It glimmers half-guessed, half-seen, half-heard. Above the flowerbed, over the lawn a flashing dip, and it is gone. The sunlight speaks, it’s voice is a bird. It glimmers half-guessed, half-seen, half-heard. And all it lends to the eye is this – A sunbeam giving the air a kiss.
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sheila Wright (b. 1961), "Humming Bird", copyright © 2011 [ women's chorus and piano ], from Be Like a Bird, no. 1, Cypress Chorale Music
Publisher: Cypress Chorale Music [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-01
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