This sweet May-morning,

And the Children are culling[316] 45

On every side,

In a thousand valleys far and wide,

Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm,

And the Babe leaps up on his Mother’s arm:—

I hear, I hear, with joy I hear! 50

—But there’s a Tree, of many, one,

A single Field which I have looked upon,

Both of them speak of something that is gone: