SPRING-FLOWERS.

And blissful blossoms in the bloomed sward,

Submit their heads in the young sun’s safeguard;

Ivy-leaves rank o’erspread the barkmekyn wall;

The bloomed hawthorn clad his pykis all

Forth of fresh burgeons; the wine-grapis ying,

Endlong the twistis did on trestles hing.

The locked buttons on the gummed trees,

O’erspreadant leaves of nature’s tapestries;

Soft, grassy verdure, after balmy showers,