Quote of the Day (William Wordsworth, on March’s ‘Life in the Fountains’)

  “Like an army defeated
   The Snow hath retreated,
   And now doth fare ill
   On the top of the bare hill;
 The Plough-boy is whooping—anon—anon:
  There’s joy in the mountains;'
  There’s life in the fountains;
  Small clouds are sailing,
  Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!”—William Wordsworth, “Written in March While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother’s Water” (1807), from The MajorWorks: Including the Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill (1984)

I took the photo accompanying this post this past weekend at the Tenafly NatureCenter, not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.