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There is no life like Spring-life born to die.
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“There is no life like Spring-life born to die.”

Christina Rossetti

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Spring — Christina Rossetti
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1862
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Rossetti places renewal beside mortality in the same phrase, making seasonal beauty meaningful partly because its new life is temporary.

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“Spring,” Project Gutenberg #16950. This is a lyric reflection on transience, not a literal biological generalization about all life.

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as the spring began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens
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“as the spring began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens”

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