SPRING IN WAR-TIME
The daffodils arc almost out, I notice U'ilh approval. And trees prepare to indicate the grimmer daps' removal; The little leaves are peeping out. with Spring as their dispenser. I wonder if those leaves have been submitted to the Censor? "For they do depend, on ■weather—and the weather is forbidden. How dare they be so careless when the world, is so careridden? They just pursue their ancient path, appointed fit. and formal. How very odd to find a sphere so absolutely normal. ‘'One sort of feels the landscape has no business now to freshen; It ought to be the subject of restrictions and repression. Instead of which it just proceeds entirely unaffected. This somehow seems undisciplined and wholly unexpected. “But, O, how nice a process seems, so kindly and consolable, That has not got a Ministry and is not now controllable! How grand to find there’s something, in a world so sternly fashioned, That can’t be blacked out, regulated or registered, or rationed! — Lucio, in the “Manchester Guardian V
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 2 August 1941, Page 3
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172SPRING IN WAR-TIME Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 2 August 1941, Page 3
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