• The waking YEAR
    A LADY red upon the hill
      Her annual secret keeps;
    A lady white within the field
      In placid lily sleeps!

    The tidy breezes with their brooms
      Sweep vail, and hill, and tree!
    Prithee, my pretty housewives!
      Who may expected be?

    The neighbors do not yet suspect!
      The woods exchange a smile,—...