100 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
had at first heard their day , day , day, ungrate¬ 
fully. u Ah! you but carry my thoughts back to 
winter!” But anon I found that they, too, had 
become spring birds. They had changed their 
note. Even they feel the influence of spring. 
I see cup lichens (cladonias) with their cups 
beset inside and out with little leaflets like shell 
work. 
March 10, 1853. This is the first really 
spring day. The sun is brightly reflected from 
all surfaces, and the north side of the street be¬ 
gins to be a little more passable to foot travel¬ 
ers. You do not think it necessary to button 
up your coat. 
P. M. To Second Division Brook. As I 
stand looking over the river, looking from the 
bridge into the flowing, eddying tide, the al¬ 
most strange chocolate-colored water, the sound 
of distant crows and cocks, is full of spring. 
As Anacreon says u the works of men shine,” 
so the sounds of men and birds are musical. 
Something analogous to the thawing of the ice 
seems to have taken place in the air. At the 
end of winter there is a season in which we 
are daily expecting spring, and finally, a day 
when it arrives.The radical leaves of 
innumerable plants (as here a dock in and near 
the water) are evidently affected by the spring 
influences. Many plants are to some extent 
