{"id":14871,"date":"2014-03-24T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/03\/24\/14871.html"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:36:00","slug":"spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/03\/24\/spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday I wasn't up to posting my usual cheerful vernal-equinox post, and then I had no time Friday and then I forgot about it over the weekend. So I'm a few days late, but figured it was worth posting anyway. Here's my traditional quote, my favorite bit of Swinburne:<\/p>\n

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For winter's rains and ruins are over,<\/p>\n

And all the season of snows and sins;<\/p>\n

The days dividing lover and lover,<\/p>\n

The light that loses, the night that wins;<\/p>\n

And time remember'd is grief forgotten,<\/p>\n

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,<\/p>\n

And in green underwood and cover<\/p>\n

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

—Algernon Charles Swinburne, from “Atalanta in Calydon<\/a>” (1865)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And here's a bit that I just re-encountered from Winter's Tale<\/cite>—the scene is in early summer, but close enough:<\/p>\n

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The silence of the trees and quiescence of the wind were nature's hope and disbelief that winter had passed, a time when the wild terrain holds its breath before rejoicing, for fear of calling back the bright blue northerns and the snow.<\/p>\n

—Mark Helprin, from Winter's Tale<\/cite>, p. 262 of the 1984 Pocket edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

May all of you who are still dealing with winter soon see the surcease of snow and the inception of spring.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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