The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-22
THE LAeeARp SPRING.
We Are in the Midst Of Very Emphatic
March.


1--WE are in the midst Of very EN-
phatic March, Never could this montl
Of sweeping north and west winds as
sumo a more characteristic name. On,
instinctiYely. hears Bryant's voice, as free
as the skies, saying;
"The stormy March is come at last
With winds and clouds and changing
skies,
hear the rushing OF the blast
That through the snow valleys dies"
On the hills that encompass and look
down upon us, this is more expressive
than in our island in the valley. Snow
squalls we have, and flurries that in their
brilliant activity, as the masked sun
lights up their transient crystals, tell
US that IL is not winter, but the real
magical spring that is here, and discours.
ing TO US of new life. Why should we
be 80 bitter against Marchi without its
wild freedom how could we hope for April
hillsides springing to blossom in hepati-
cas-, the red NAPLES shining in the bare
woodlands, and all thar generous out
burst Of verdure that must come. There
is PECULIAR high spirit in these chill,
wandering breezes; here we feel the call
OF life to the earth,--the summons OF
eternity, the essential unbeginning and
amending, the vital perpetuity OF all that
is, the basic principle Of the universe.
On a hilltop, lifted above all works OF
men, one is in communion with divinity
in the heart OF that free fitness OF
movement, from the arctic SHOWS 10 the
tropics. Then one knows that poles ana
tropics are one, moved by the vast and
irresponsible current of the divine. And
then one feels lifted, freed, inforced and
regeneratad,-- If but for an hour, he is
above the circumstance Of earth.
And vet the circumstance Of earth is
3 part Of this TRANSPORTATION. From the
buds of the shrubs and trees, from the
foot leaves Of the herbs, from the Great
ures of the fields and woods, squirrels,
woodchucks, RABBITS, and the little mice
that have gnawed the back of the wild
apples; from the grouse that break from
their nestled coverts in alder and witch
hazel thickets, and boom away through
the forest depths; from the juncos that
rush down from the north in iloeks, like
the sparrowsr-all these tell us Of the
same wondrous possession Of spirit
that informs them all.
This il a late and,Iong spring. There
WIN be no early blooms. The great
drouth Of the last summer, pursued into
the very fall, has destroyed plants with
out number in all our region The EARL.
est Of flowers, the hepatica, has often
been found in bloom in the latter days
Of February, but now we shall not see
them in any considerable number uErtil
April has banished the winter and reeoy-
cred the realm Of flowers. The birds are
now coming; but slowly and sparsely;
and while we do hear the grackles with
their fantastic clamor, and there are
small aocks OF bluebirds on the sumae
bushes and the apple tress, yet these
seem to anticipate SHOWS that viii worry
them not little before the time Of love
and nest and family life. The skunk
cabbage fingers in its hood, and the arbu.
tus buds seem no nearer bloom than
when they were green in November It
is a waiting spring; yet it is spring,
and not winter. The feeling in the air
is Of renewal, not Of despair:
Goods in his heaven
Ais right with the world"
Springfield Republican