Sweet changing Seasons! Winter cold and stern,
Fair Spring with budding leaf and opening flower,
And Summer when the sun’s creative power
Brings leafy groves and glades of feathery fern,
The glorious blossoms of sweet-scented May,
The flowery hedgerows and the fragrant hay,
And the wide landscape’s many-tinted sheen.
Then Autumn’s yellow woods and days serene;
And when we’ve gathered in the harvest’s treasure,
The long nights bring us round the blazing hearth,