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Farmers need seasons. In a lovely, squat little verse to the month of March, A.E. Housman wrote: "So braver notes the stormcock sings/ To start the rusted wheel of things,/ And brutes in field and brutes in pen/ Leap that the world goes round again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Time for Every Season | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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