May-Day is never allowed to pass in this community without profuse

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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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