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  • Tis now the twenty-third of march,
    And this warm sun takes out the starch
    Of winter's pinafore -
    Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
    A health to spring, and while it sips
    It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

    Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Henry David Thoreau (1979). “The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau: A Selected Critical Edition”