{"id":1222,"date":"2013-04-15T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:22:43","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/2013\/04\/15\/spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring.<\/p>\n

The Anglo-Saxons had a way with getting to the point and imbuing their words with the action. There’s no mystery to what’s going on when you say the word spring, yet there’s a magic that the word captures for me when I reflect on my experiences from this winter and on winter in general.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite spring poems is the prologue from the Canterbury Tales – read it out loud to feel its true sentiment.<\/p>\n

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
\nThe droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
\nAnd bathed every veyne in swich licour
\nOf which vertu engendred is the flour;
\nWhan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
\nInspired hath in every holt and heeth
\nTendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
\nHath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
\nAnd smale foweles maken melodye,
\nThat slepen al the nyght with open ye
\n(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
\nThanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
\nAnd palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
\nTo ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
\nAnd specially from every shires ende
\nOf engelond to caunterbury they wende,
\nThe hooly blisful martir for to seke,
\nThat hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. <\/span><\/p>\n

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