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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. – Henry Van Dyke

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May-Day is never allowed to pass in this community without profuse lamentations over the tardiness of our spring as compared with that of England and the poets. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “April Days,” 1861

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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. – George Herbert

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How wonderfully these pictures have caught the look of tentative spring—spring waiting for a single day to burst into living green. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901

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