So to a thorny thicket dense The Faun
With rosy-coloured may-bloom, whence hides.
I can hear a torrent rumble,
And, peering forth, behold it tumble
Cumbrously into a pool whose white
Tumult sears the giddied sight.
There, half dozed, silent, smile to hear
A babble of voices drawing near,
Spy many a boy and laughing lass
Racing hands-linked across the grass.
Boys and Girls. Now has the blue-eyed Spring
Sped dancing through the plain. A CATCH
Girls weave a daisy chain; FOR SPRING.
Boys race beside the sedge;
Dust fills the blinding lane;
May lies upon the hedge:
All creatures love the spring!
The clouds laugh on, and would
Dance with us if they could;
The larks ascend and shrill;
A woodpecker fills the wood;
Jays laugh crossing the hill:
All creatures love the spring!
The lithe cloud-shadows chase
Over the whole earth's face,
And where winds ruffling veer
O'er wooded streams’ dark ways
Mad fish upscudding steer:
All creatures love the spring!
Into the dairy cool
Run, girls, to drink thick cream!
Race, boys, to where the stream
Winds through a rumbling pool,
And your bright bodies fling
Into the foaming cool!
For we'll enjoy our spring!