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O Spring! can I believe you,With the score of times you've lied?~V. A. R., "The Return of Spring," Poems, 1867
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Winter is twiddling her snowflakes,Precariously poisedOn the season's equator,As hidden roots and channels and tendrilsAre burgeoning with spring,And..
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Unwelcome Winter, that old Reprobate,Is always Early; Spring is always Late.~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Seasons," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
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To be interested in the changing seasons is... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana, The Life of..
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One Swallow maketh not Summer; nor one Woodcock a Winter. ~William Camden, Remains, 1605
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Look, friends, don't you see a swallow? The herald of spring. ~Aristophanes, 424 B.C. ["One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey," says..
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In European folk-lore, the bear is the Candlemas weather-prophet. ~John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases..
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In America, paying due deference to the creature's importance is our national mythology, it is left to the ground-hog to decide the day, and so the..
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Everybody who knew anything about ciphering was called in to consider it. A young man from a high school near here, who made a specialty of..
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Groundhog DayWinter's grip's broken, the sun swings north!~David J. Beard (1947–2016), @Raqhun, tweet, 2015
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Though the groundhog and crocus creep into their holesIt's Spring, and the almanac shows it;Though a polar wave over the continent rollsIt's Spring!..
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The hedge-rows cast a shallow shade Upon the frozen grass, But skies at evening song are soft, And comes the Candlemas.Each day a..
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Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has..
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,Winter will have another fight;But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain,Winter is gone, and will not come..
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If ground-hog day was bright and fair,The beast came forth, but not to stay;His shadow turned him to his lair,Where six weeks more, he dormant..
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