30 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
the ripening corn let’s have a second or third 
crop of peas and turnips, decking the fields in 
a new green. So amid clumps of sere herd’s- 
grass sometimes flower the violet and butter¬ 
cups, spring-born. 
March 1, 1842. Whatever I learn from any 
circumstance, that especially I needed to know. 
Events come out of God, and our characters 
determine them and constrain fate as much as 
they determine the words and tone of a friend 
to us. Hence are they always acceptable in ex¬ 
perience, and we do not see how we could have 
done without them. 
March 1, 1854. Here is our first spring 
morning according to the almanac. It is re¬ 
markable that the spring of the almanac and 
of nature should correspond so closely. The 
morning of the 26th ult. was good winter; but 
then came a plentiful rain in the afternoon, 
and yesterday and to-day are quite spring-like. 
This morning the air is still, and though clear 
enough, a yellowish light is widely diffused 
through the east now just after sunrise. The 
sunlight looks and feels warm, and a fine va¬ 
por fills the lower atmosphere. I hear the 
“ phebe ” or spring note of the chickadee, and 
the scream of the jay is perfectly repeated by 
the echo from a neighboring wood. For some 
days past the surface of the earth, covered with 
