Classic Poem

How smiles creation o'er the flow'ry plain,
Whilst Flora with her variegated train
Of vernal graces decorates the scene,
The blooming garden and the forest green.
Pleas'd with the change, the tenants of the grove,
Attune their songs of gratitude and love,
The flatter'd peasant o'er the prospect smiles,
And future hope his recent care beguiles;
Warm expectation glows in every face,
And nature shines with universal grace:
But stay vain man, too sanguine in thy views,
Let not appearance thy hopes abuse,
Enjoy those pleasures offer'd in the spring,
Nor wait for those which summer ne'er may bring.