NEWS OF SPRING 



carrot blushes as it faces the light ; the 

 ingenuous strawberry-plants inhale the 

 flavours which noontide lavishes upon 

 them as it bends towards earth its sap- 

 phire urns ; the lettuce exerts itself to 

 achieve a heart of gold wherein to lock 

 the dews of morning and night. 



The fruit-trees alone have long re- 

 fle6led: the example of the vegetables 

 among which they live urged them to 

 join in the general rejoicing, but the 

 rigid attitude of their elders from the 

 North, of the grandparents born in the 

 great dark forests, preached prudence 

 to them. But now they awaken: they 

 too can resist no longer and at last 

 make up their minds to join the dance 

 of perfumes and of love. The peach- 



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