But I trust from others, who've gone before,

Thou'st clothed thy form, and supplied thy store

And now, what tidings am I to bear

Of thee—for I shall be questioned there?"

I asked my mother, who o'er me bent,

What all this show of the Seasons meant?

She said 'twas a picture of Life, I saw;

And the useful moral myself must draw!

I woke, and found that thy song was stilled,

And the sun's bright beams my room had filled!