Now Spring wakes the May-morn, the sweetest of hours

Now Spring wakes the May-morn, the sweetest of hours
Calls the lark to the sun-beam, the bee to the flowers;
Calls Youth, Love, and Beauty to hail the new day,
And twine their gay garlands in honour of May;
Yet hope not, amid the soft pleasures they bring,
That moments so jocund will pause on their wing!

Obey, my fair LAURA, the summons that breathes
In the hue of the trees, in the scent of the wreaths,
In the song of the woodlands, for love is the lay,
And lustre and perfume are types of his sway;
More tuneful his accents, more rosy his spring,
And O! not less rapid the flight of his wing!