Green Summer with her flocks of singing-birds,

Cuckoos, and nightingales, and shrill-voiced lark,

And swallows clamorous in crowded nests;

Wild Autumn with his wind-swept avenues

And fluttering of tawny golden leaves,

His late warm ripeness in the apple-trees,

The vagueness of his mourning, purple mists;

And Winter, finally, with amber lights,

His black boughs bare against the azure sky,

Or on a gentle, rounded slope of woods,