And all the bustle and the hum

Of men and things, we don't await

The Spring—because the Spring has come.

Each morning as I go to work

I take my 'bus to Marble Arch,

And thence amid a wealth of flowers,

And air perfumed with odours, march

To Hyde Park Corner. Tell me where—

I honestly should like to know—

The much belauded "country" can