What is unusual about the ending of the song in the lovely month of may?

The answer is it does not cadence on the tonic. In addition to the lovely month of May, The song is best described as a lied from a song cycle and Adagio is the term that best defines the tempo of the excerpt. In this work, the music is intended to reflect the literal meaning of the words being sung which a method is recognized as word painting.

Pilgrims is the answer

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.