"With the dawning of the New Year, fresh hope quickens in the poet's
breast. He would fain hasten its laggard footsteps, longing for the
flowers of spring and for the glory of summer. Can trouble live in the
spring--the season of life and love and music? Let the spring come, and
he will sing 'for Arthur a sweeter, richer requiem.'"--_Elizabeth R.
Chapman_.
1. NORTHERN SHORE. Robertson explains: "The north being the last to be
included in the widening circle of lengthening daylight as it readies
further and further down from the equator."
2. NEW-YEAR. The natural, not the calendar year. The re-awakening of
life in nature.