Glad all life! In the olive, as each day
Ripens its juices; cattle, as they play
Amid rich herbage; the warrior steed,
Curvetting with arched neck about the mead.
Even the snow-white ram, and mighty bull,
Joy, as, Clitumnus, on them dashes full
Thy hallowed flood, to be chosen to escort
A Roman Triumph to Jove’s Temple-Court.
Ever; from young Spring, that, keeping the doors
Of Winter and of Summer, with soft show’rs