Ladybird's back! In Winter.

Just before New Year I have unintentionally killed the one I have been living with for a while.  Actually, I think she has just died, but then again, another one just came! Out of nowhere, in the midsts of the Winter. If that's not a sign I don't know what The Sign is then.

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home

the field mouse is gone to her nest

the daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes

and the birds and the bees are at rest

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home

the glow worm is lighting her lamp

the dew's falling fast, and your fine speckled wings

will flag with the close clinging damp

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home

the fairy bells tinkle afar

make haste or they'll catch you and harness you fast

with a cobweb to Oberon's star

From Favorite Poems Old and New, Selected for boys and girls by Helen Ferris Doubleday & Co., Inc.(1957)