We are always looking forward to the passing and ending of winter, but when summer is here it seems as if summer must always last. As I went across t… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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We are always looking forward to the passing and ending of winter, but when summer is here it seems as if summer must always last. As I went across the fields that day, I found myself half lamenting that the world must fade again, even that the best of her budding and bloom was only a preparation for another spring-time, for an awakening beyond the coming winter’s sleep.