Than its now most perfect bloom!

NATURE’S CHEER

Oh, when I sigh and melancholy grow,

And all my hopes turn brown and sere,

It sends a thrill of gladness in my heart

To think that we have nature here.

Then in the fields I go a-roaming,

And in the high topped woods a-play:

Away with cares and melancholy now,

I know I’d like to live alway.