Wear in their dainty livery

Drops of silver jewelry;

In new-made suit they merry look;

And Time throws off his cloak again

Of ermined frost, and cold, and rain.

Charles, Duke of Orleans, 1391.

SPRING, AT EASTER.

FROM “CHRIST’S TRIUMPH AND VICTORY.”

But now the second morning from her bower,

Began to glister in her beams; and now