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CHAPTER II Spring
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In azure1 now out of grey mist grew
My own sweet violet, shy and blue,
With eyes of smiling sunshine
And tears of diamond dew.
The Prince of Winter sat on the mountains and gazed upon the valley.
He knew that Spring must soon be here and anxiously looked out for him. But there was nothing to see but snow and snow and yet more snow; and he began to think that young Spring was afraid.
He laughed scornfully and sent his gales2 howling round the mountain-peaks. Wildly they rushed over the hills, snapped great trees in the wood and broke the ice on the river to pieces. They drove the floes before them, flung them over the meadows and whipped the water into foam3.
“There, there!” said Winter. “Softly, my children, softly!”
When night came and the stars twinkled, Winter stared at the river with his cold eyes; and there and then there was ice again upon the water. But the[27] waves broke it into two at once. They leapt and danced and cracked the thin crust each time that it formed over them.
“What’s this?” asked Winter, in surprise.
At that moment, a soft song sounded far down in the valley:
Play up! Play soon!
Ye wavelets, blue and tender!
Winter clutched his great beard and leant forward to listen. Now the song sounded again and louder:
Play up! Play soon!
Keep time! Keep tune!
Ye wavelets, blue and tender!
Keep tune! Keep time!
In equinoctial splendour!
Up sprang Winter and stared, with his hand over his brows.
Down below in the valley stood the Prince of Spring, young and straight, in his green
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garb
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implore
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soften
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mountebank
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overflowed
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bellow
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thawed
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hue
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twig
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spoke
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sprightly
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darting
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crested
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twigs
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lark
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quack
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wren
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