Enter the wild with care, my love
and speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive
and grow
And even as you travel far
from heather, crag and river
May you like the little fisher
set the stream alight with glitter
May you enter now as otter
without falter into water
Look to the sky with care, my love
and speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive
and grow
And even as you journey on
past dying stars exploding
Like the gilded one in flight,
leave your little gifts of light
And in the dead of night my darling,
find the gleaming eye of starling
Like the little aviator,
sing your heart to all dark matter
Walk through the world with care, my love
and sing the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive
and grow
And even as you stumble
through machair sands eroding
Let the fern unfurl your grieving,
let the heron still your breathing
Let the selkie swim you deeper,
oh my little silver-seeker
Even as the hour grows bleaker,
be the singer and the speaker
And in city and in forest,
let the larks become your chorus
And when every hope is gone,
let the raven call you home
note: The underlined words in the song lyrics are among the many words related to nature that were removed from Oxford University Press's Junior Dictionary in the 2000s to make space for trendy internet-related words. It may be that even more words in the song were removed; those are just the ones specifically mentioned in short lists of such words included in news coverage such as in the below links.
project: The Lost Words Project [Lost Words]
recording: The Lost Words collective [YouTube]
background: Controversy over update to Oxford junior dictionary (Dec 2008) [It's A Crime]
background: Oxford junior dictionary replaces natural words (Jan 2015) [The Guardian]
background: excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's Word Hoard (Feb 2015) [The Guardian]