Like freedom’s voice when a chain’s unbound.

And soon with its bloom will the earth be gay,

For the air is bland as the breath of May;

Sunshine and buds and all glorious things

Will give to the hours their downiest wings.

Nature has burst from her wintry tomb,

Wreathed with the glory of brightening bloom;

Fetters of frost-work are gently unbound,

Blossoms and flowers are clustering round.

Bosoms that know not the blighting of care,