Smulti, Anatio THE MIDSUMMER MEDLEY FOR 1830. A SERIES OF COMIC TALES, SKETCHES, AND FUGITIVE VAGARIES, IN PROSE AND VERSE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "BRAMBLETYE HOUSE," &c. &c. "It is a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a DRYDEN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. THE MIDSUMMER MEDLEY. THE BIRTH-DAY OF SPRING. I. CRY Holiday, Holiday! let us be gay, And share in the rapture of heaven and earth; For see! what a sunshiny joy they display, To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly out-pouring their voice, Nature's Pean proclaim, and in chorus rejoice! II. Loud carols each rill as it leaps in its bed; The wind brings us music and balm from the south, And Earth in delight calls on Echo to spread The tidings of joy with her many-tongued mouth : O'er sea and o'er shore, over mountain and plain, Far, far does she trumpet the jubilee strain. |