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The Book of the Seasons, Or, the Calendar of Nature
The Book of the Seasons Or the Calendar of Nature Author:William Howitt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: Richard Bentley Subjects: Seasons in literature Calendars Almanacs, English Folklore Nature in literature Natural history Seasons Nature Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Seasons Nature / General Nature / Essays Science / L... more »ife Sciences / Biology / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FEBRUARY. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels ; who can stand before his cold ? He sendeth out his word and melteth them ; he causeth his wanIs to blow, and the waters flow. Psalm cxlvii. 16 -- 18. As I have already observed, I regard this as the most cheerless month in the year. There may be pleasant varieties of it; the latter end may, and frequently is, much more agreeable than the commencement; but, as a whole, it is as I have characterised it. It is at once damp and foggy. Besides the earth being saturated with a whole winter's moisture, there is generally abundance of rain during this month, so much so as to have acquired for it the cognomen of " February fill-dike." The frosts and snows which have been locking up and burying the earth for weeks and months, are now giving way, and what is so cheerless and chilly as A Great Thaw? There is a lack of comfort felt everywhere. In real winter weather the clear frosty air sharply saluted the face by day, and revealed to the eye at night a scene of pureand sublime splendour in the lofty and intensely blue sky glittering with congregated stars, or irradiated with the placid moon. There was a sense of vigour, of elasticity, of freshness about you, which made it welcome: but now, most commonly, by day or ...« less