My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring.
Sir Henry Wotton, 1568–1639.
FLIGHT OF CRANES.
A SIMILE FROM HOMER.
As when of many sorts the long-neck’d fowl
Unto the large and flowing plain repair,
Through which Cayster’s waters gently roll,
In multitudes—high flying in the air,
Now here, now there fly, priding on their wing,
And by-and-by at once light on the ground,