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What does it mean?
A poetic invocation welcoming the arrival of spring and its gentle qualities.
In plain terms
Calling for spring to arrive with mildness.
What can you take from it?
Seasons bring change and renewal.

Where it applies

  • poetry
  • nature appreciation
  • seasonal change

Putting it to work

  • writing poetry
  • observing nature

Questions to consider

  • How does spring make you feel?
  • What brings renewal to you?

Another view

Spring weather can also be unpredictable.

More from James Thomson

  1. Sighed and looked unutterable things.

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  2. The negligence of Nature wide and wild, Where, undisguised by mimic art, she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye.

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  3. Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.

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