This is the moping season, and only a few things can distract me from this mood. Today I ate a ripe plum, which pleased me for a while, and tonight I am driving the sadness hence with watermelon. Even as I enjoy them, I remember that these gifts of summer are spring's and winter's work. Perhaps they would not reach full ripeness without summer's heat, but it was in the spring that they germinated and grew, and the stored-up winter rain nourished them. Summer contributes very little to the few pleasures it brings. Spring and winter let me sneer at its overbearing days. Take that, July! Maybe you'll turn this sweetness to sweat tomorrow, but tonight I let the juice drip down my chin, and give not a fig for your intemperate depredations.
Hah!
This is the moping season, and only a few things can distract me from this mood. Today I ate a ripe plum, which pleased me for a while, and tonight I am driving the sadness hence with watermelon. Even as I enjoy them, I remember that these gifts of summer are spring's and winter's work. Perhaps they would not reach full ripeness without summer's heat, but it was in the spring that they germinated and grew, and the stored-up winter rain nourished them. Summer contributes very little to the few pleasures it brings. Spring and winter let me sneer at its overbearing days. Take that, July! Maybe you'll turn this sweetness to sweat tomorrow, but tonight I let the juice drip down my chin, and give not a fig for your intemperate depredations.
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