To look on the lovely flower.

—WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

The larch has donned its rosy plumes,

And hastes its emerald beads to string:

The warblers now are on the wing,

Across the pathless ocean glooms.

Through tender grass and violet blooms

I move along and gaily sing.

—RICHARD WILTON.

Violets stir and arbutus wakes,