NEWS OF SPRING 

 be deceived and lose a single second 

 that might be fair, they have resolved 

 to bloom without respite from January 

 to Decembei^Nature approves them, 

 ancLrtereward their trust in happiness, 



their generous beauty and amorous ex- 

 cesses, grants them a? force, a brilliancy 

 and perfumes which she never gives to 

 those which hang back and show a fear 

 of life. 



All this, among other truths, was pro- 

 claimed by the little house that I saw 

 to-day on the side of a hill all deluged 

 in roses, carnations, wall-flowers, he- 

 liotrope and mignonette, so as to sug- 

 gest the source, choked and overflow- 

 ing with flowers, whence Spring was 

 preparing to pour down upon us ; while, 



