NEWS OF SPRING 

 lace of peace and light and love, it is 

 interesting to dete6l its preparations 

 for travelling in the fields of undying 

 green. I can see clearly that it is afraid, 

 that it hesitates once more to face the 

 great frost-traps which February and 

 March lay for it annually beyond the 

 mountains. It waits, it dallies, it tries its 

 strength before resuming the harsh and 

 cruel way which the hypocrite winter 

 seems to yield to it. It stops, sets out 

 again, revisits a thousand times, like a 

 child running round the garden of its 

 holidays, the fragrant valleys, the ten- 

 der hills which the frost has never 

 brushed with its wings. It has nothing 

 to do here, nothing to revive, since 

 nothing has perished and nothing suf- 

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