• How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How fair doth Nature
Appear again!
How bright the sunbeams!
How smiles the plain! 
The flow'rs are bursting
From ev'ry bough,
And thousand voices
Each bush yields now. 
And joy and gladness
Fill ev'ry breast!
Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
Oh rapture blest! 
Oh love! oh loved one!
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.79