I’d call it beautiful variety,

And therefore dote on her. Yet I can spy

A beauty in that fruitful change, when comes

The yellow Autumn and the hopes o’ the year

Brings on to golden ripeness; nor dispraise

The pure and spotless form of that sharp time,

When January spreads a pall of snow

O’er the dead face of th’ undistinguish’d earth.

Then stand I in the hollow comb beneath,

And bless this friendly mount, that weather-fends