Season

 1 Spring| cleverly,~Waiting till all the flocks had sung their daily song.~
 2 Spring|       trees. ~"Hush, hush, you flocks," quoth he, "keep still
 3 Spring|     inquiry, ~As to how ye, my flocks, fared this long winter
 4 Spring|       wonderment. ~Some of the flocks He sent to swim in lakes
 5 Spring|    family. ~At times he to the flocks, like a benignant soul, ~
 6 Spring|      in the skies in streaming flocks ~Rejoice and intermingle,
 7 Spring|        and laugh, ~While other flocks lay eggs and count them
 8 Summer|       a fiend, ~That e'ven the flocks of birds up in the skies
 9 Autumn|     fall. ~The rest of the gay flocks are never seen or heard; ~
10 Winter|       herds of hungry sows and flocks of starving sheep, ~And
11 Winter|   today. ~We know how our dear flocks and herds are to be fed, ~