MY GARDEN I hold to the masculine gender for spring, for 

 5 is he not the leader of all the forces that will 

 march with banners so gay through the long 

 year ? 



"The youtherie of the year!" How confi- 

 dent in conscious power! How sure in his 

 vision of summer glory! Blue-spread over 

 heaven, green-spread over earth — no cloud 

 above nor shade below, such is spring's perfect 

 day. It is the very spirit of youth and health, 

 of energy and high hope. 



Vision belongs to youth by right. Though 

 he travel daily farther from the east, yet is he 



"By the vision splendid 

 On his way attended." 



Such is Wordsworth's radiant view of youth, 

 but to me there is something unspeakably sad 

 in his sense of the loss of vision in the life of 

 the man. Is it true that we must look back 

 to youth for brightness and hope? 



Happy we who have come through broken 

 weather, if sometimes we gaze into the heart 

 of the sky and for a moment feel that the 

 ancient glory of the heavens has returned on 



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