There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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