'TWAS comfort in her dying room
'TWAS comfort in her dying room / To hear the living clock,
The robin is the one
That interrupts the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
The robin is the one
That overflows the noon
With her cherubic quantity,
An April but begun.
The robin is the one
That speechless from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best.
'TWAS comfort in her dying room / To hear the living clock,
Dear March, come in! / How glad I am!
The spider as an artist / Has never been employed
The mountain sat upon the plain / In his eternal chair,