Still I think of him with pride!

His song was of the summer-time

The very birds sang in his rhyme;

The sunshine, the delicious air,

The fragrance of the flowers, were there,

And I grew restless as I heard,

Restless and buoyant as a bird,

Down soft, aërial currents sailing,

O'er blossomed orchards, and fields in bloom,

And through the momentary gloom