Classic Poem

To-day was Shakespeare born!
Upon a day like this it must have been:
A golden morn,
Fields decked in vernal green;
The birds full-throated sound their songs of glee
And with one voice
Rejoice;
A wondrous glory rests upon the sea,
The whiles
The heavens are all smiles,
And earth doth wear
A jocund air,
And all is glad and gay —
The Muses' greatest son was born to-day!