Could sing with such a beak?

Yet you’ll be nightingales some day

And charm the country-side,

When I’m away and far away,

And May is queen and bride.

(May arrives unperceived by April, and gives her a kiss. April starts and looks round.)

April.

Ah, May, good-morrow, May, and so good-bye.

May.

That’s just your way, sweet April, smile and sigh;