求英文散文一篇

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要中长的,不要太长,不要太短,顺便附上中文翻译,谢谢。体裁最好是鼓励人像上的那种,不要爱情的, 谢谢了

Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one prodigious leap–and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight.
In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, overcome by shyness, like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight, giggling in the hallway.“I know you’re out there,”I cry.“Come in!”And April slips into our arms.
The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. Within the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. One examines the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago? The apples display their milliner’s scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged. All the sleeping things wake up–primrose, baby iris, blue phlox. The earth warms–you can smell it, feel it, crumble April in your hands.
Look to the rue anemone, if you will, or the pea patch, or to the stubborn weed that thrusts its sh