TO CHEERFULNESS.
Hail! Goddess of the sparkling eye!
With rosy cheek and dimpled smile!
Offspring of health and industry,
Whose pow'r can ev'ry care beguile!
With rosy cheek and dimpled smile!
Offspring of health and industry,
Whose pow'r can ev'ry care beguile!
Alike to thee, where Hecla's snows
For ever crown the rugged steep;
Where vegetation never glows,
And scarce the sullen lichens creep;
For ever crown the rugged steep;
Where vegetation never glows,
And scarce the sullen lichens creep;
Or, blest Italia's fertile vales,
Where Arno winds his classic stream,
Where softly blow th' unchanging gales,
Where mildly glows the sun's bright beam.
Where Arno winds his classic stream,
Where softly blow th' unchanging gales,
Where mildly glows the sun's bright beam.
