Spring Has Sprung!!!!

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The Spring

by Thomas Carew (1640)

Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost         Her snow-white robes; and now no more the frost         Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream         Upon the silver lake or crystal stream:         But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth,         And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth         To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree         The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee.         Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring,         In triumph to the world, the youthful spring:         The valleys, hills, and woods in rich array         Welcome the coming of the long’d-for May.         Now all things smile: only my love doth lower,         Nor hath the scalding noon-day sun the power         To melt that marble ice, which still doth hold         Her heart congeal’d, and makes her pity cold.         The ox, which lately did for shelter fly         Into the stall, doth now securely lie         In open fields; and love no more is made         By the fire-side, but in the cooler shade         Amyntas now doth with his Chloris sleep         Under a sycamore, and all things keep         Time with the season: only she doth carry         June in her eyes, in her heart January.

Nothing Deep.

Spring is quickly approaching and renewed hope and a feeling of newness is in the air. We are coming to the end of winter and going into another season...literally and spiritually. Thank you God for allowing us to make it out of the 'winter season'.