Then melt (about the vernal equinox),

As he did in the softer arms of Venus;—

O Month, before your final moon is set,

Much may have happened—anything, in fact;

More than in any March that I have met

(Last year excepted) fearful nerves are racked;

Anarchy does with Russia what it likes;

Paris is put conundrums very knotty;

And here in England, with its talk of strikes,

Men, like your own March hares, seem going dotty.