O wonderful world of white!
When trees are hung with lace,
And the rough winds chide,
And snowflakes hide
Each bleak unsheltered place;
When birds and brooks are dumb,—what then?
O, round we go to the green again!
A. B. Thorwaldsen (1770-1844).
Spring.
THE SEASONS.
The earth receives light from the sun, and completes its course through the heavens once a year. Each year brings Spring with her garlands of flowers, Summer—golden Summer—with her sheaves of sunlit grain, Autumn with the purple grape, and Winter clad in frost and snow.
A. B. Thorwaldsen.
Summer.