This Golden Day: a Madrigal For Amber

My Amber dear, awake to me. My madrigal has melody in trills of the gold finch that you hear. Awake to me, my Amber dear! It’s dawn. Arise, my angel sweet. Put golden slippers on your feet. We’ll follow where our songbird flies. My angel sweet. It’s dawn; arise! We must make haste, my lovely lass, to walk on glistening velvet grass. A day like this we cannot waste. My lovely lass, we must make haste! A meadow waits, my cherished one. Through sun-bright posies we shall run, where dewy fragrance permeates. My cherished one, a meadow waits! I know a stream, my darling love, a shining mountain sits above. And water falls where gold fish gleam. My darling love, I know a stream. We’ll find a rock, oh, maiden fair, where you can loose your yellow hair. And please me more. . . unloose your frock! Oh, maiden fair, we’ll find a rock. My one true heart, do come away. Beneath the falls this golden day, pure pleasure will our love impart. Do come away, my one true heart! 4/17/14 for the Colourful Verse Contest of Charlotte Puddifoot (Just playing around with swap quatrain form, imagining one of those guys from centuries ago trying to woo his maiden!)