A Spring-Day Walk

, the city's ceaseless hum, The haunts of sensual life, adieu! Green fields, and silent glens! we come, To spend this bright spring-day with you.

Whether the hills and vales shall gleam With beauty, is for us to choose; For leaf and blossom, rock and stream, Are coloured with the spirit's hues.

Here, to the seeking soul, is brought A nobler view of human fate, And higher feeling, higher thought, And glimpses of a higher state.

Through change of time, on sea and shore, Serenely nature smiles away; Yon infinite blue sky bends o'er Our world, as at the primal day.

The self-renewing earth is moved With youthful life each circling year; And flowers that Ceres' daughter loved At Enna, now are blooming here.

Glad nature will this truth reveal, That God is ours and we are His; O friends, my friends! what joy to feel That He our loving father is!