A hymn from childhood. The month may be wrong, but the weather is spot on. Maybe this is not what it was like in May, but what it should have been had we been luckier. This was lovely Levengrove Park in Dumbarton today in the sunshine with its wonderful trees clothed in green and beauteous bloom of flowers. Bill Heaney
PICTURES BY TOM GARDINER
The sun is shining brightly
The trees are clothed with green
The beauteous bloom of flowers
On ev’ry side is seen
And all the world is gay
For ’tis the month of Mary
The lovely month of May
There’s music in the heavens
For birds are singing there
And nature’s songs and praises
Are sounding through the air
With joy we’ll sing today
For ’tis the month of Mary
The lovely month of May
And when night closes o’er us
And twinkling stars appear
The chaste moon calmly reigneth
In skies so bright and clear
In heaven far away
There reigns o’er saints and angels
Our lovely Queen of May
