SPRING.
FROM THE GERMAN.
Look all around thee! How the spring advances!
New life is playing through the gay green trees;
See how, in yonder bower, the light leaf dances
To the bird’s tread, and to the quivering breeze!
How every blossom in the sunlight glances!
The winter frost to his dark cavern flees,
And earth, warm-wakened, feels through every vein
The kindly influence of the vernal rain.