Chapter CXV

Spring is described, with its sprouting hedges and blowing violets. The whole landscape changes in colour, with the warmer weather;

"And drown'd in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song."[81]

Who has not heard the lark, after it has become invisible in the heavens?

The migratory "birds that change their sky"[82] return and build their nests;

"and my regret
Becomes an April violet,
And buds and blossoms like the rest."

He is cheered by the opening season.