Of all the months that compose the year,

From January chill, to December drear,

Commend us to November;

For, sure as its period comes around,

Good fellows are over the wine-cup found,—

'Twas so since we remember.

Let April boast of its sunny showers,

Let May exult in its gay young flowers,

And June in its heat and its light;

This, this is the month to surpass them all,