...beginning. There is indeed a wonderful mixture of softness and strength in almost every one of the lines. From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing ; That heavy Saturn laughed and...

...dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him, Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odor and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they...

...Training Ottice. WRSC Address changes: Please attach old address label to request for changes. COVER: "From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied...dress'd in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. "-Shakespeare (Photo by Bruce Berg) Secretary ot the Army Ciittord L Alexander Jt Chief...

...the final quatrain and the couplet, but the entire sonnet clarifies the issues that confront her son. From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt...

...extensively among all of the quotations of Renaissance lyrics lacing the "essay" which concludes that work: "From you have I been absent in the spring, / When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim — . . . Nor did I wonder at the lily's white / Nor praise the deep vermilion...

...absent in the spring 225 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed Time for you and time for me. And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And fo laughed and leaped with him. (1. 1-4) 226 Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow...

...pale, dreading the Winter 's near. XCVIII From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April (dress'd in all his trim) Hath put a spirit of youth in everything: That heavj Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet...

...Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. 98 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, drest in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laught and leapt...

...and again he found a verse. From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every...thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. After that, neither one came. At night he sat at his desk in the YMCA casting about in his mind and...

...speaker's anguish and desolation. In Sonnet 98 Shakespeare brilliantly adapts this seasonal convention: From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt...