And trample the flowers on the verdant plain,
Has sprung from his wintry sleep.
In the sunlight’s gladdening ray
The red deer bounds from his rocky lair,
To roam in sportive pride,—
And wild birds abroad in the free bright air
Our lingering footsteps chide!
While nature anew to life is born,—
With mirthful shout—and the sounding horn—
To the woods and the hills—away!