Birds with many colors gay,

Through the branches flitting,

Sing, to greet my Lady Love, a lusty welcome song.

Even bees make holiday,

Hive and honey quitting,

Tremulous and jubilant they join the eager throng.

Now the road is flower-paved;

Timid fawns are peering

From their pleasant vantage in the roadside’s leafy green.

All the world in sunlight laved,