First Day of Spring

For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

--Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (1865)



Also, Google's homepage design (see below) from the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", Eric Carle, is making my day. I remember loving the illustrations in this book when I was in kindergarten.











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pop ramblings said…
how for come i did not know you were in the blogosphere? also that your blog is named ramble on and mine is named popramblings.

kindred spirits much?
8:54 PM
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