Melts March frosts, and returning with a gay,

Late Zephyr laughs the Dog-star’s heats away;

To Summer, that at call, whate’er the Hour,

Re-stocks the fold, and bids the orchard flow’r.

Fruitfulness everywhere—all things good;

No savage lions, tigers mad for blood,

No scaly pythons, gathered, coil on coil,

Into one orb, to hurl it on the spoil;

No wolf’s-bane, with its mystic-purple bloom

Tempting rash herb-collectors to their doom;