Page:May-day and other pieces, Emerson, 1867.djvu/18

6 Turn swiftlier round, O tardy ball!

And sun this frozen side,

Bring hither back the robin's call,

Bring back the tulip's pride.

Why chidest thou the tardy Spring?

The hardy bunting does not chide;

The blackbirds make the maples ring

With social cheer and jubilee;

The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee,

The robins know the melting snow;

The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed,

Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves,

Secure the osier yet will hide

Her callow brood in mantling leaves;

And thou, by science all undone,

Why only must thy reason fail

To see the southing of the sun?