Christopher Upton - Tell me, O shell - текст песни (слова)

Tell me, O shell,
 what have you heard?
 Into my ear
 floats the cry of a bird,
 and also I hear
 pebbles, sea-stirred.
 Tell me, O shell,
 what did you see?
 Into my eye
 floats a glimpse of a tree,
 a palm, on an island,
 surrounded by sea.