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Updated: May 24, 2025
But though summer time in the country is bright and beautiful with its broad meadows waving before the western wind like seas of green, and the yellow corn, gleaming in the field where the sun-burnt reapers are singing; though the flowers shed their fragrance, and the breeze sighs softly through the branches overhead in monotones, but slightly varied, yet sweet and soothing; though the wood is made vocal with the song of birds, and all nature is jocund and bright notwithstanding, all this, the winter, strange as it may seem, was the time of our greatest enjoyment.
For what sayeth that merry song thou singest, Little John? Is it not thus? "For when my love's eyes do thine, do thine, And when her lips smile so rare, The day it is jocund and fine, so fine, Though let it be wet or be fair And when the stout ale is all flowing so fast, Our sorrows and troubles are things of the past."
The cold blue sky was cloudless; every sound out of doors fell on the ear with a hearty and jocund ring; all newly-lit fires burnt up brightly and willingly without coaxing; and the robin-redbreasts hopped about expectantly on balconies and windowsills, as if they only waited for an invitation to walk in and warm themselves, along with their larger fellow creatures, round the kindly hearth.
But up sprang the sun, and, chasing these gloomy sounds, out burst the wonderful chorus of Australian groves, the great kingfisher opening the jocund melodious babble with the glee of his social laugh. And now I heard Faber's step in Lilian's room, heard through the door her soft voice, though I could not distinguish the words.
The passing years have not wholly dimmed his 'Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops, and then, as if forecasting a scene to strike horror even in 'States unborn and in accents yet unknown, the exclamation: 'I must be gone and live, Or stay and die!
The west wind, laden with the delicious smell of uncovered earth, the tender blue of the sky, the cheerful chirping of the ground sparrows, the jocund whistling of the gophers, the winding flight of the prairie pigeons all these sights and sounds of spring swept back upon me, bringing something sweeter and more significant than before.
Why cannot we throw aside our insular stiffness, our British hauteur, and be natural? I journeyed to Broadstairs, late at night, riding in a three-horsed brake with many a jocund passenger. And then something happened. Something ineffably trivial, and yet a matter of life and death. We were bowling merrily along the country lanes in the fragrant air.
It was no easy matter for the young man to bring himself to do so, for cool, bold, and fluent as he was on ordinary occasions, the fever of love rendered him shy and nervous. The looks of Diana acted on his spirits as the weather does on a barometer. A smile made him jocund and hilarious, a frown abashed him almost to gloom.
In literature as in all else man merits his subjection to trivialities by a kind of economical greed. A condition for using justly and gaily any decoration would seem to be a certain reluctance. Ornament strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilised was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty.
Why, Jack, I'd rather see you in bankruptcy I'd rather see you trying to lead a double life in a single flat on seven dollars and a half a week I'd almost rather see you every day at breakfast than have it come to that! "Wake up and get jocund with life! Why, you could have all good citizens stung to death if you chose.
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