WHAT SPRING MEANS TO ME
Sir.-Why all this fuss about the spring? Writers in your symposium, despite their gambolling, sounded, I thought, a trifle glum. Even you, August Symposiarch, didn’t exactly (if I may say) spark. Spring is a many-clichéd thing, God wot. Can we afford to play with it? Punch gets away with it, but English people love the spring. Hey ding-a-ding! Quite obviously we do not. It means we start to save for Christmas, hope that the fuel will suffice, and mess about the yacht, scraping and painting --got to have the old craft nice to put down-oh, yes, there’s cherry bloom, of course, a filagree of green upon the oaks, the scent of freezias and violets, and laughing girls in town, a high wind blowing, sun-flashes, rain that soaks. That sort of thing-nothing to make a song about nor get facetious, see! For maybe She (the Goddess who presides) doesn’t appreciate such spoof, Yes, primaverily it may be so. Sweet Botticelli is your proof. So; Sir, if you should have a summer symposium, an autumn olla podrida and winter wassailing in mind, I bid you treat those seasons tenderly or they may stand upon their dignity and bring a spate of trouble on our
kind.
J.C.
T.
(Remuera).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 5
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211WHAT SPRING MEANS TO ME New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 5
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