Many a little boy and girl have gone over the hill, since that time, to seek the land of the Swans, in search of strawberries in winter, but have not found them; perhaps it was because they were more selfish, and not so good as Delphine.
CORINNE.
Mild broke the morning,
The meadows looked gay,
The birds sweetly caroled
The welcome of May;
And blithely the girls played
At ball on the green,
But the sweetest, the fairest,