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There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything.
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“There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything.”

Christina Rossetti

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Spring — Christina Rossetti
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1862
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Spring is praised as a concentrated moment of visible renewal, when growth in plants and birds makes seasonal change feel immediate and abundant.

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“Spring,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems; Project Gutenberg #16950. The surrounding poem also stresses that spring passes and that spring-life is born to die.

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