30 THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 



' things that you will try to do this spring will be 

 to see the shrill little piper, as he plays his bagpipe . 

 in the rushes at your very feet. But hunt until you 

 do see him. It will sharpen your eyes and steady j 

 your patience for finding other things. 



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 VIII 



You should see the sun come up on a May morn- 

 ing. The dawn is always a wonderful sight, but % 

 never at other times attended with quite the glory, ^ 

 with quite the music, with quite the sweet fragrance, ,- 

 with quite the wonder of a morning in May. Don't*, < 

 >fail to see it. Don't fail to rise with it. You will ' ; 

 feel as if you had wings something better even sjA 

 than wings. 



IX 



You should see a farmer ploughing in a large field 

 i the long straight furrows of brown earth; the 

 blackbirds following behind after worms; the rip of 

 the ploughshare ; the roll of the soil from the smooth 

 mould-board the wealth of it all. For in just such 

 fields is the wealth of the world, and the health of 

 it, too. Don't miss the sight of the ploughing. 



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, Go again to the field, three weeks later, and see 

 it all green with sprouting corn, or oats, or one of a 

 score of crops. Then but in " The Fall of the 

 "Y ^Year" I ask you to go once more and see that field 



