Almanac: Horace (translated by Housman) on the coming of spring

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The river to the river-bed withdraws,
And altered is the fashion of the earth.

Horace, “Diffugere nives” (Odes, IV.vii, trans. A.E. Housman)