exhilarance

Updated: May 13, 2025

The dove-cots buzzed with wooings; the eaves grew populous with swallows, and the thatched roofs of the pens and stables were covered with poultry grubbing for the earliest worm. It was the resurrection of nature, nowhere felt with such keen exhilarance as in arctic latitudes.

John Lespérance - The Bastonnais: Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76