Summer Russell: Music
Hope Found a Hummingbird
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Hope found a hummingbird one morning in spring
With two frightened eyes, and one bad broken wing
She cradled it close, and she took it inside
Went to her mother with tears in her eyes
Saying “Look, she’s so small--is she going to die?”
Her mother bent down and said, “Baby, don’t cry.
We’ll build her a nest, and make sure that she’s warm
And we’ll keep her until she’s not hurt anymore
And she will live
She will fly
She is stronger than you know
Give her love
Give her time
She will heal
She will grow.”
Hope would come running from school every day
To sit with the bird while the other kids played
Each morning she’d wake and make sure it was fed
And each night it slept in a box by her bed
Summer was coming, the weeks rolled on by
But the hummingbird didn’t seem ready to fly
So Hope just kept praying, and cared for her bird
And over and over, she spoke the same words:
She will live
She will fly
She is stronger than you know
Give her love
Give her time
She will heal
She will grow.”
And then one bright morning, the time came at last
They set the bird free; she flew off in a flash.
Hope looked at her mother, said, “How did you know?”
Her mother just said, “I believed it was so.”
“When you were born, they said you were too small
To go home, that you might never go home at all
But we knew that you’d make it, and each night we’d stay
Close by your side, and we’d kiss you, and say
She will live
She will fly
She is stronger than we know
Give her love
Give her time
She will heal
She will grow.
She will live
She will fly
She is stronger than we know
Give her love
Give her time
She will heal
She will grow.”