A Gift for Summer, Rich and Rare

"The Seasons" excerpts
by Abigail Stanley Hanna (1857)

"Spring must unbind the icy chains,
And send the streamlet o'er the plains;
Call the feather'd songsters home,
That far in southern climates roam:
Must bid the springing grass appear,
And daisies crown the bright parterre;
Gently distil her silent show'rs,
And propagate her budding flow'rs;
Thus gathering up her treasures fair,
A gift for Summer, rich and rare."

15 April, Home Garden Photo
Lavender Trumpet Vines
(Clytostoma callistegioides)
Maxim Venegerov, violin
and Itamar Golan, piano (1992)
Violin Sonata #5 in F Major "Spring" Op. 24
II. Adagio molto espressivo (Beethoven)

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