Checks all our buds from blowing.
This seeming tyranny, however, is to be regarded as the most useful discipline; and those years generally prove most fruitful in which the pleasing appearances of Spring are the latest.
The sun having now acquired some power, often reminds us of the genial influence of Spring, though the naked shrubs and trees still give the landscape the comfortless appearance of Winter —
“There is a vernal freshness in the air,
A breaking in the sky, full of sweet promise
That the tardy Spring, capricious as she is,
And chary of her favors, will, ere long,
Smile on us in her beauty, and call forth
From slumber long and deep each living thing.
I know it by this warm delicious breeze,