ENGLAND. 



Sweet changing Seasons ! Winter cold and stern, 

 Fair Spring with budding leaf and opening flower, 

 And Summer when the sun's creative power 

 Brings leafy groves and glades of feathery fern, 

 The glorious blossoms of sweet-scented May, 

 The flowery hedgerows and the fragrant hay, 

 And the wide landscape's many-tinted sheen. 

 Then Autumn's yellow woods and days serene ; 

 And when we've gathered in the harvest's treasure, 

 The long nights bring us round the blazing hearth, 

 The chosen haunt of every social pleasure. 

 Land of green fields and flowers ! Thou givest birth 

 To shifting scenes of beauty, which outshine 

 Th' unvarying splendours of the Tropic's clime. 



