[49] Arise, already the baker sells breakfast to boys. On every side, already, the birds announce the dawn by their chirping.

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“Such days, I trow, at the infancy of earth,

Shone forth, and kept the tenor of their birth;

True spring was that, the world was bent on spring,

And eastern breezes check’d their wintry wing:

While cattle drank new light, and man was shown,

A race of iron from a land of stone;

Then savage beasts were launch’d upon the grove,

And constellations on the heaven above;