Season

 1 Spring|   food is scarce, or if your soup is thin. ~As the birds sang
 2 Summer|    of ham, or a dish of warm soup, ~Then all the better we
 3 Summer| bread and gulps the steaming soup. ~With curses on his lips
 4 Summer|    for salt alone, but for a soup bone, too. ~Why don't you
 5 Summer|       Why don't you sup your soup without all condiments? ~
 6 Summer|  time we'll want to cook hot soup? ~The birds have gobbled
 7 Autumn|    sip but weak, ill-tasting soup, ~Many a time we drink stale
 8 Autumn|   are forced to live on beet soup and dry crusts. ~Therefore
 9 Winter|    ourselves with savory hot soup.~But you, unlucky things,
10 Winter|      each time you cook your soup, ~Or linger by the stove
11 Winter|    sip a cold crumbled bread soup.~Many a time you'll have