Fair spring sproutes forth, blest with thy blessing;

The fertile year is with thy bounty crouned,

And where thou go'st, thy goings fat the ground.

Plenty bedews the desert places,

A hedge of mirth the hills encloseth.

The fields with flockes have hid their faces,

A robe of corn the valleys clotheth.

Deserts and hills and fields and valleys all,

Rejoice, shout, sing, and on thy name do call."