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“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.”

Firsts Spring Palms Wizards Palm Springs Professional Experience

Author:Lindsay Hartley

“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

Firsts May Stills Song Sky Color Spring Wings Speed Flight Southern Chill Blast Hue Bluebird

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.”

Giving Firsts Made Light Night Names Water Quality Teach Spring Bigger Give Me Astronomy Thee Pits Day And Night Barren Fertile Tempest Berries Isle Gonzalo From Tempest Caliban

Book:Four Late Plays

Source: Four Late Plays

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”

Firsts Littles Stills Home Earth Song Waiting Wonder Spring Bird Garden South Snow Welcome Symbols Farmers Mates Wet Hardy Orchard Bluebird Minstrels

Author:Neltje Blanchan

“March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.”

Knows Trying Firsts Persons Joy Boys Months Becoming Spring Expectations March Betray Springtime Pompous Firmness Prognostication

Book:The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

Source: The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

“It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.”

Firsts Mean Light Spring Weekend First Day Of Spring Christmas Lights

Author:David Letterman

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”

Feels Mind Firsts Hands Found Easy Sound Return Spring Ill Command Wheels Flaws Crowns Clay Vessel Hollow Potters Leaks Mould Pottery

Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir

“And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.”

Firsts Wells Has Beens Young Spring Fats Considering Ache

Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings