Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.

Last year was sort of wet in the spring, and this year may end up being one of the driest Marches in history.

As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wave of elevated energy prices, and it will bode ill for discretionary consumer spending. Consumer spending might be rather lackluster for some time, perhaps a year or two. In the end we're going to [see] a consumer that's saving more, is more cautious, and a little more spendthrift.

Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.

While a late-winter cold snap or cool spring could whittle down some of the storage surplus, it is probably too late to prevent stocks from ending the heating season at record-high levels.

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.