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deep breath and let's get down to sleep. And of green cables by lucy maud montgomery spring had come once more to green gables the beautiful capricious reluctant canadian spring lingering along through april and may in a succession of sweet fresh chilly days with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.

The maples in Lovers Lane were red-budded,

and little curly ferns pushed up around the dryads bubble.

Away up in the barrens behind Mr. Silas Sloan's place,

the mayflowers blossomed out,

pink and white stars of sweetness,

under their brown leaves.

All the schoolgirls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming home in the clear,

echoing twilight, with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil.

"'I'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers, said Anne.

Diana says, perhaps they have something better.

But there couldn't be anything better than Mayflowers, could there, Marilla?

And Diana says, if they don't know what they're like, they don't miss them.

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