Your DAILY Companion From the Almanac Editors
New flowery scents strewed everywhere,
New sunshine poured in largesse fair,
"We shall be happy now," we say.
A voice just trembles through the air,
And whispers, "May."
–Sarah C. Woolsey (1835–1905)
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