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ceasless hum of bees is heard, they having come to par- 

 take of the sweet contents of tiny cups. 



The animals which have been lying dormant during 

 the cold season, have aroused themselves from slumber 

 and are coming forth to enjoy the change; and butter- 

 flies which have been shut up in cocoons now eat their 

 way through their prison-houses and wing their way 

 through the bright sunshine. The wild geese have 

 been disturbed by natural instinct and are making their 

 angular marches northward, where they spend the sum- 

 mer. In this way, one by one, our old friends return 

 to us, each in their respective seasons, some more deli- 

 cate than others, wait till everything is warmed and 

 brightened up; while others return e'er the snow and 

 ice have departed. 



Now is the time of activity among people as well as 

 other things. Now is the time that fruit is beginning 

 to form, and the grains and grasses begin their growth ; 

 the wheat which has laid quiet under the snow, begins 

 new action, and when the summer months arrive the 

 fields appear like waving oceanvS sending huge ripples 

 across them, till they reach the edge, and then cease. 



In process of time, early fruits are ripening, the grass 

 is coming into bloom and maturity, and the corn and 

 other grains are rappidly progressing, and all the south- 

 ern visitors of the woods and field have arrived, and 

 merry spring with a quiet unconscious motion, yet per- 

 ceptable changes, silently verges into mid-summer. 



Oh, how my heart rejoices, 



At the coming of the springtime, 



With her happy voices, 

 More than in winter, 



