Last year you sang it as gladly.

“New, new, new, new!” Is it then so new

That you should [carol so madly]?

“Love again, song again, nest again, young again!”

[Never a prophet so crazy!]

And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend,

See, there is hardly a daisy.

“Here again, here, here, here, happy year!”

O warble unchidden, unbidden!

Summer is coming, is coming, my dear,