How fair doth Nature <br /> <br />Appear again! <br />How bright the sunbeams! <br /> <br />How smiles the plain! <br /> <br />The flow'rs are bursting <br /> <br />From ev'ry bough, <br />And thousand voices <br /> <br />Each bush yields now. <br /> <br />And joy and gladness <br /> <br />Fill ev'ry breast! <br />Oh earth!--oh sunlight! <br /> <br />Oh rapture blest! <br /> <br />Oh love! oh loved one! <br /> <br />As golden bright, <br />As clouds of morning <br /> <br />On yonder height! <br /> <br />Thou blessest gladly <br /> <br />The smiling field,-- <br />The world in fragrant <br /> <br />Vapour conceal'd. <br /> <br />Oh maiden, maiden, <br /> <br />How love I thee! <br />Thine eye, how gleams it! <br /> <br />How lov'st thou me! <br /> <br />The blithe lark loveth <br /> <br />Sweet song and air, <br />The morning flow'ret <br /> <br />Heav'n's incense fair, <br /> <br />As I now love thee <br /> <br />With fond desire, <br />For thou dost give me <br /> <br />Youth, joy, and fire, <br /> <br />For new-born dances <br /> <br />And minstrelsy. <br />Be ever happy, <br /> <br />As thou lov'st me!<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/may-song/
