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III.-MAECH. " These, marching softly, thus In order went. And after
them the monthes all riding came: First, sturdy March, with brows
full sternly bent And armed strongly, rode upon a ram, The same
which over Helleapontus swam; Yet In his hand a spade he also hent,
And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he
strowed as he went, And fild her womb with fruitfuH hope of
nourishment.' Spenser. The sun has now risen considerably on the
ecliptic, and should the wind keep away from the east, the
revivifying influences of the solar heat begin to be felt. The song
of birds begins to be heard, and chief of all at this season, the
mavis may be heard pouring forth his evening hymn in notes by
distance made more sweet. Some of the earlier flowers begin to gem
the garden and lawn. In our Scottish climate the snowdrop (which
blooms much earlier in the South, and even here, in a very mild
season, rears its spotless white in the preceding months) and the
yellow and purple crocus appear. An elegant authoress, Charlotte
Smith, thus apostrophises the snowdrop: ? "Like pendant flakes of
vegetating snow, The early herald of the infant year, Ere yet the
adventurous crocus dares to blow, Beneath the orchard boughs, thy
buds appear. While still the cold north-east unjrenial lowers, And
scarce the hazel in the leafless copse, Or sillows, show their
downy powdered flowers, The grass is spangled with thy silver
drops." Migratory birds begin to go or come, as their breeding
habitats dictate, and our own familiar rooks are time out of mind
alleged to begin building their nests on the first Sunday of March.
This tradition has probably arisen from the leisure of the Sabbath
permitting our forefathers to observe the phenomena of nature more
close...
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