Classic Poem

When Spring comes with suns and showers,
What gives beauty to the bowers? —
Buds and flowers.

When the glowing Summer's born,
What pours nature from her horn? —
Hay and corn.

When mild suns in Autumn shine,
Then, oh Earth, what gifts are thine? —
Fruit and wine.
When gray Winter comes, what glow
Makes the round earth sparkle so? —
Ice and snow.

Hay and corn and buds and flowers,
Snow and ice and fruit and wine, —
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter,
With their suns and sleets and showers,
Bring, in turn, these gifts divine.

Spring blows, Summer glows,
Autumn reaps, Winter keeps
Spring prepares, Summer provides,
Autumn hoards, Winter hides.

Come, then, friends, their praises sound:
Spring and Summer, Autumn, Winter,
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring,
As they run their yearly round,
Each in turn with gladness sing!
Time drops blessings as he flies —
Time makes ripe and Time makes wise.