Spring's bright advance upon the tower a-top,

The feature of the front, the Belvedere?

Look at it for a moment while I breathe.

IV

Ready to hear the rest? How good you are!

Now for this Twentieth splendid day of Spring,

All in a tale,—sun, wind, sky, earth and sea,—

To bid man, "Up, be doing!" Mount the stair,

Monsieur Léonce Miranda mounts so brisk,

And look—ere his elastic foot arrive—