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Inscribed in gray ink upper right: "3"; on verso in gray ink upper left: "4"

Lettered on inlaid page: "ODE | on the | SPRING. | LO! where the rosy-bosom'd hours, | Fair VENUS' train, appear, | Disclose the long-expected flowers, | And wake the purple year! | The Attic warbler pours her throat, | Responsive to the cuckow's note, | The untaught harmony of spring: | While, whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, | Cool Zephrys thro' the clear blue sky | Their gather'd fragrance fling. | D Where-"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "44 ODE ON THE SPRING. | Where-e'er the oak's thick branches stretch | A broader browner shade; | Where-e'er the rude and moss-grown beech | O'er-canopies the glade; | Beside some water's rushy brink | With me the MUSE shall sit, and think, | (At ease reclin'd in rustic state), | How vain the ardour of the crowd, | How low, how little are the proud, | How indigent the great! | Still is the toiling hand of Care; | The panting herds repose: | Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air | The busy murmur glows! | The insect youth are on the wing, | Eager to taste the honied spring, | And"