tassel-time

Updated: May 12, 2025

And what a good guidance it gives you. How cheerfully it lures you on into the secrets of field and wood, and brings you acquainted with the birds and the flowers. The stream can show you, better than any other teacher, how nature works her enchantments with colour and music. Go out to the Beaver-kill "In the tassel-time of spring,"

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness