NEWS OF SPRING 



with extravagant and unnatural daughters; but they, the poor 

 mothers, have remained what they were a hundred thousand 

 years ago. They have not added a fold to their petals, re- 

 ordered a pistil, altered a shade, nor invented a new perfume. 

 They keep the secret of a stubborn mission. They are the 

 indelible primitives. The soil is theirs since its origin. They 

 represent, in brief, an invariable thought, an obstinate desire, 

 an essential smile of the Earth. 



That is why it is well to question them. They have evi- 

 dently something to tell us. And, then, let us not forget that 

 they were the first — with the sunrises and the autumns, with 

 the springs and the sunsets, with the song of the birds, with 

 the hair, the glance and the divine movements of women — to 

 teach our fathers that there are useless and beautiful things 

 upon this globe. . . . 



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