The season will save us
Apr 08, 2020
2 minutes
NOTHING is so beautiful as Spring’. As April opens out in this bleakest of years, it is Gerard Manley Hopkins’s simple statement that fires us with hope and confidence. The strident daffodil yellows that celebrate the end of winter, the burgeoning trees, the crowning blossom —the sheer fecundity of it all. And the sound! In a countryside with few motor cars and
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