The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring

Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays   Now divers birds are heard to sing, And sundry flowers their heads upraise,   Hail to the coming on of spring! The songs of those said birds arouse   The memory of our youthful hours, As green as those said sprays and boughs,   As fresh and sweet as those said flowers. The birds aforesaid,—happy pairs,—   Love, mid the aforesaid boughs, inshrines In freehold nests; themselves, their heirs,   Administrators, and assigns. O busiest term of Cupid’s Court,   Where tender plaintiffs actions bring,— Season of frolic and of sport,   Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring!