To summer-gladsomeness unkind:

It chastens only to requite

With gleams of fresher, purer, light;

While, o'er the flower-enamelled glade,

More sweetly breathes the wind.

But on!—a tempting downward way,

A verdant path before us lies;

Clear shines the glorious sun above;

Then give free course to joy and love,

Deeming the evil of the day