April Is the Cruelest Month

Spring is rumored to be in the air, but in the legal academy and in general it isn’t always the happiest and most optimistic of times.  T. S. Eliot offered the following lines in the The Waste Land:

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

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