' WITH BLOSSOMS HAVE 



BEDECKED DAINTILY (SPENSER) 



RAINY DAYS 



MARCH 



RAINY days in ' lion March ' do not have 



the depressing effect of soaking, songless, 



autumn days, though 



too many of them are 



aggravating at a time 



when there is much 

 to be done. We 



feel the advance of 

 spring, it cannot 

 be stayed and, despite 

 the steady downpour, the birds per- 

 sistently sing their joyous notes. There 

 is an absence of falling, drifting leaves ; 

 a neatness in the fields and a general 

 appearance of tidiness about the trees. 

 These last, awakening from the deep 

 sleep of winter and bathing in Nature's 



ALMOND 



BLOSSOM bath, shake their great limbs like some 

 prehistoric mammoth in the drying 

 winds; their strength renewed. 

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