Is it, as we said, because spring comes around with more momentum, or because men are out there closer to nature and commune with it, for centuries of civilization have less, because they are less worn, for no so marked is among them as crude divorce and the antagonism between the spirit world and the world of bodies?

Profound question is this. I would not get into it, but it puts me ahead in spite of myself.

I am certainly in old age men of the South felt and celebrated, at least with equal enthusiasm in the North today, the return of spring. Atis risen Osiris risen and risen Adonis attest. The Mysteries of Samothrace and of Eleusis were basically inspired by the spring. When the vegetation was reborn, when sprouting grass and flowers, when the forests were filled with pomp and vegetables, when the sap up the trunks, was when the grieving mother wiped her tears and dismissed the suit of mourning, because the daughter , sunk in gloomy entrails of the earth, came fertile, beautiful and bright flashes immortal, because Cora, the dark fugitive lover who had been imprisoned in her arms, appeared again to bathe in the sunlight waves love, who, by contemplating and kiss her, paused longer on our horizon, and was spreading more hours and with greater skill and effectiveness in this northern hemisphere, golden showers from their burning rays.