For a light heart in a dull season.

And you may love him in the pool,

That is for him a happy school,

In which he swims as taught by nature,

Fit pattern for a human creature,

Glancing amid the water bright,

And sending upward sparkling light.

"Nor blush if o'er your heart be stealing

A love for things that have no feeling:

The spring's first rose by you espied