270 FEBRUARY FESTIVITIES
Obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.
I was astounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat.
Vergil—AEneid. II. 774, and III. 48.
Degenores animos timor axguit.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Vergil—Æneid. IV. 13.
Pedibus timor addidit alas.
Fear gave wings to his feet.
VvnaiL—jEneid. VIII. 224.
Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.
Wordsworth—Pefer Bell. Pt I. St. 3.
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Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 441.
FEBRUARY
Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with
ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering.
Bryant—A Winter Piece. L. 60.
The February sunshine steeps your boughs
And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
Bryant—Among the Trees. L. 53.
February makes a bridge, and
March breaks it.
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February, fill the dyke
With what thou dost like.
Tusser—Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
February's Husbandry. (1577 Edition "With
what ye like.
