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If breaks the sun-shine o'er the spangled trees } 
Or flits on tepid wing the western breeze, 
In liquid dews descends the transient glare , 
And all the glittering pageant melts in air . 
Darwin. 
The glebe being resolved, the month next in succession is Ventose 
(March), or, in our New English Calendar, the Windy Month . 
The air being at this time compressed by cold, a greater quantity of 
oxyge?i is found in a given volume, and the winds act as a kind of bellows to 
the earth. 
Thus more oxygen is absorbed by the land, and the beneficial process of 
oxygenation is still further carried on. 
