THE summer comes with rosy wreaths, Brings much the mind to calm and cheer, But there's a season worth them all And that's the spring-time of the year. 218 SPRING-TIME OF LIFE. In spring the farmer ploughs the field Now youth's the spring-time of your life, Lest weeds should rise the grain to spoil. But soon the time will come when you With all its stormy strife to share : Let fortune kind or frowning prove, GEORGE DONALD. |