May Song

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>MAY SONG.</h1> <p id="id00869">How fair doth Nature</p> <p id="id00870">Appear again!<br/> How bright the sunbeams!<br/></p> <p id="id00871">How smiles the plain!</p> <p id="id00872">The flow'rs are bursting</p> <p id="id00873">From ev'ry bough,<br/> And thousand voices<br/></p> <p id="id00874">Each bush yields now.</p> <p id="id00875">And joy and gladness</p> <p id="id00876">Fill ev'ry breast!<br/> Oh earth!—oh sunlight!<br/></p> <p id="id00877">Oh rapture blest!</p> <p id="id00878">Oh love! oh loved one!</p> <p id="id00879">As golden bright,<br/> As clouds of morning<br/></p> <p id="id00880">On yonder height!</p> <p id="id00881">Thou blessest gladly</p> <p id="id00882">The smiling field,—<br/> The world in fragrant<br/></p> <p id="id00883">Vapour conceal'd.</p> <p id="id00884">Oh maiden, maiden,</p> <p id="id00885">How love I thee!<br/> Thine eye, how gleams it!<br/></p> <p id="id00886">How lov'st thou me!</p> <p id="id00887">The blithe lark loveth</p> <p id="id00888">Sweet song and air,<br/> The morning flow'ret<br/></p> <p id="id00889">Heav'n's incense fair,</p> <p id="id00890">As I now love thee</p> <p id="id00891">With fond desire,<br/> For thou dost give me<br/></p> <p id="id00892">Youth, joy, and fire,</p> <p id="id00893">For new-born dances</p> <p id="id00894">And minstrelsy.<br/> Be ever happy,<br/></p> <p id="id00895">As thou lov'st me!</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />