from Henry David Thoreau - Early Essays
and Miscellanies (Princeton Univ. Press, 1975)
page 30 bottom.
April is so called from the
Latin, Aprilis, which is
derived from Aperire,
to open. The allusion is
obvious,
"April showers
Bring forth May-flowers,"
is one of those old sayings
which possess no intrinsic
merit of their own, but derive
all their interest from the
association of ideas, as Stewart
would say.
edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Edwin Moser,
with Alexander C. Kern
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