“The happy birds Te Deum sing,/’Tis Mary’s month of May;/ Her smile turns winter into spring,/ And darkness into day;/ And there’s a fragrance in the air,/ The bells their music make,/ And O the world is bright and fair, / And all for Mary’s sake.// ”
The first stanza of Number 936 in the good old English Catholic Hymn Book; by a sometime Vicar of Pimlico, Fr Alfred Gurney (1843-1898).
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