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1

Sweet April showers
Do bring May flowers.

Tusser—Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Ch. XXXLX.

2

Again the blackbirds sing; the streams
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.

Whittier—The Singer. St. 20.

ARBUTUS, TRAILING

Epigasa repens.

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Darlings of the forest!
Blossoming alone
When Earth's grief is sorest
For her jewels gone—
Ere the last snow-drift melts your tender buds have blown.

Rose T. Cooke—Trailing Arbutus.

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Pure and perfect, sweet arbutus
Twines her rosy-tinted wreath.

Elaine Goodale—The First Flowers.

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The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest,
But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam,
And betrays the path to her woodland home.

Sarah Helen Whitman—The Waking of the Heart.

ARCADIA

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The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Alcæus—Fragment. LXXXVI.

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What, know you not, old man (quoth he)—
Your hair is white, your face is wise—
That Love must kiss that Mortal's eyes
Who hopes to see fair Arcady?
No gold can buy you entrance there;
But beggared Love may go all bare—
No wisdom won with weariness;
But love goes in with Folly's dress—
No fame that wit could ever win;
But only Love may lead Love in.
To Arcady, to Arcady.

H. C. Bunner—The Way to Arcady.

8

Arcades ambo—id est, blackguards both.

Byron—Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 93.

(See also Vergil)

9

Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren.
I, too, was born in Arcadia.

Goethe—Motto of Travels in Italy. Schiller—Resignation. I.

(See also Hemans, Hoffmann, DeLille, Schidoni)

10

I too, Shepherd, in Arcadia dwelt.

Felicia D. Hemans—Song, in Songs for Sunny Hours.

11

Auch ich war in Arkadien.

E. T. A. Hoffmann Motto to Lebensansichten des Kater Murr. Vol. I. Ch. II.

12

Les moi aussie je fus pasteur dans l'Arcadie.

De Lille—Les Jardins.

13

I dwell no more in Arcady,
But when the sky is blue with May,
And birds are blithe and winds are free,
I know what message is for me,
For I have been in Arcady.

Louise Chandler Moulton—Arcady.

14

In the days when we went gypsying
A long time ago.

Edwin Ransford—In the Days when We Went Gypsying.

15

Et in Arcadia ego.
I too was in Arcadia.

 Bartolomeo Schidoni on a painting in the Schiarra-Colonna, Rome. Nicholas Poussin later used same on a painting in the Louvre. On his monument, San Lorenzo, Rome. Wieland notes same in Pervomte, Idem & Erinerung. Herder, Angedenken an Neapel. Inscription on painting by Joshua Reynolds. Portrait ofHariot Fawhener, Mrs. Bouverie and Mrs. Crewe.

(See also Goethe)

16

Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.

Robert W. Service—The Tramps.

17

Arcades ambo,
Et cantare pares, et respondere parati.

Arcadians both, equal in the song and ready in the response.

Vergil—Eclogues. VII. 4.

18

Tamen cantabitis, Arcades inquit montibus
Hsec vestris: soli cantare periti Arcades.
O mihi turn quam molliter ossa quiescant,
Vestra meos olim si fistula dicat amores.
Arcadians skilled in song will sing my woes
upon the hills. Softly shall my bones repose,
if you in future sing my loves upon your pipe

Vergil—Eclogues. X. 31.

ARCHITECTURE

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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Bacon—Essays. Of Building.

20

There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and the walls
Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;
Pillars and doors all were of brass;
Windows of latten were set with glass;
It was so rich in many wise,
That it was like a paradise.

Sir Bevis of Hamptoun. MS. in Caius College.