Comments - Annotated Songs: June Hymn
This beautiful song pretty much sums up early parenthood for me. It was June 2011 and our first daughter was just 3 months old. I played this song over and over and it spoke to me like no other, full of metaphor:
The endless washing of tiny baby grows - "Pegging clothing on the line".
Trying to get your crying baby to sleep in at 4am - "Standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before".
Finally to sleep, only for the bird song at dawn to "disrupt my reverie again".
Having a family - "Expanding out its empire by degrees"
Two years later our second daughter was born, another beautiful blonde baby girl, and the chorus lyric finally came true -
"Once upon it, the yellow bonnets garland all the lawn. You were waking, day was breaking, a panoply of song. And summer comes to Springville Hill".
Indeed it does Colin. Thank you for this song. It means a lot. X
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