Book excerpt: ""The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are! How sweetly, too, they smell! ""The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they. "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out, - 'Tis good to be alive."