COMPOSED ON A MAY MORNING, 1838

               Life with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun,
               Yet Nature seems to them a heavenly guide.
               Does joy approach? they meet the coming tide;
               And sullenness avoid, as now they shun
               Pale twilight's lingering glooms, — and in the sun
               Couch near their dams, with quiet satisfied;
               Or gambol-each with his shadow at his side,
               Varying its shape wherever he may run.
               As they from turf yet hoar with sleepy dew
               All turn, and court the shining and the green,
               Where herbs look up, and opening flowers are seen;
               Why to God's goodness cannot We be true,
               And so, His gifts and promises between,
               Feed to the last on pleasures ever new?

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