Hail, gentle Spring! whose genial pow’r

Calls to new life each fragrant flow’r,

In richest tints array’d:

Whose balmy breath revives each scene,

The shady grove, the daisied green

In verdant beauty clad.

At thy approach the feather’d trains

Renew their long neglected strains;

Sweet music floats around;

Whist list’ning Echo’s busy tongue