’ROUND THE YEAR.
Reading edition
O beautiful world of green! When bluebirds carol clear, And rills outleap, And new buds peep, And the soft sky seems more near; With billowy green and leaves,—what then? How soon we greet the red again!
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Summer.
O radiant world of red! When roses blush so fair, And winds blow sweet, And lambkins bleat, And the bees hum here and there; With thrill of bobolinks,—ah, then, Before we know, the gold again!
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Autumn.
O beautiful world of gold! When waving grain is ripe, And apples beam Through the hazy gleam, And quails on the fence rails pipe; With pattering nuts and winds,—why then, How swiftly falls the white again!
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Winter.
O wonderful world of white! When trees are hung with lace, And the rough winds chide, And snowflakes hide Each bleak unsheltered place; When birds and brooks are dumb,—what then? O, round we go to the green again! —G. Cooper.
A. B. Thorwaldsen (1770-1844).
Spring.