March 
where we are told that ‘‘everlasting spring 
abides,’’ at least in any mundane interpretation. 
of the phrase. Our spirits are constitutionally 
in harmony with nature’s law of regular varia- 
tion in our surroundings, and immutability and 
monotony are closely associated in our minds. 
However admirable in many ways the pines, 
spruces, and cedars are, every one must feel, as 
compared with the deciduous trees, how remote 
they are from human sympathy, in an im- 
mobility that suppresses all impulsiveness. The 
several successive aspects of deciduous growth— 
the bud and blossom, fruitage and decay—are 
types of man’s development that cannot fail to 
win regard. That commonest of all weeds, the 
dandelion—‘‘ composite’’ parable—in one short 
month how it epitomizes the bounds of human 
life—its glittering youth, and hoary - headed 
age. 
Another advantage in the alternation of sea- 
sons is, as one has expressed it, that ‘¢ this 
charming renewal every spring deceives us as 
to ourselves. We think ourselves every year as 
the oak which is in leaf, and set out again with 
it.’” As glad as the child is to grow old, so 
eager are the old to be young again. 
Although an occasional balmy day turns our 
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