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Las lluvias de abril

han convertido el jardín de la placeta en una pradera de flores silvestres.

 

Ya lo dice el prologo de los Cuentos de Canterbury :

When April with its sweet showers has pierced March's drought to the root, bathing every vein in such liquid by whose virtue the flower is engendered, and when Zephyrus with his sweet breath has also enlivened the tender plants in every wood and field, and the young sun is halfway through Aries, and small birds that ...

 

o, si lo preferís, en inglés medieval:

 

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour; ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

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