Down in the shade by yon loquacious brook
Henceforth to live! O sky! thou sea of love,
Eternal spring of health, will not thy waters succour me?
Must, my life's blossom wither, stifled by the weeds?

Johann Peter Uz, who was undervalued because of his sickly style,
wrote many little songs full of feeling for Nature, though within
narrow limits. Their titles shew the pastoral taste[4]:--_Spring_,
_Morning, Shepherd's Morning Song, The Muse with the Shepherds, The
Meadow in the Country, Vintage, Evening, May, The Rose, Summer and
Wine, Winter Night, Longing for Spring_, etc.

Many are fresh and full of warm feeling, especially the Spring Songs:

See the blossoming of Spring!
Will't not taste the joys it showers?
Dost not feel its impulse thrill?
Friends! away our cares we'll fling!
In the joyous time of flowers,
Love and Bacchus have their will.

and

O forest, O green shady paths,
Dear place of spring's display!
My good luck from the thronging town
Has brought me here away.

O what a fresh breeze flows
Down from the wooded hill,