A Spring-Day Walk

Adieu, 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 gleamWith 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 broughtA 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'erOur world, as at the primal day.

The self-renewing earth is movedWith youthful life each circling year;And flowers that Ceres' daughter lovedAt 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 feelThat He our loving father is!