The snail’s on the thorn:

God’s in his heaven—

All’s right with the world!

And after April, when May follows

And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows!

Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover

Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray’s edge—

That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture