From these general descriptions, which to some extent still hold good, or did so till lately, we see that the main features of the midsummer fire-festival resemble those which we have found to characterize the vernal festivals of fire.
Vernal Equinox, at midnight for the meridian of Paris, in the year whilom Christian 1792, from that moment shall the New Era reckon itself to begin.
About the vernal equinox, however, one unexpected gleam of hope does burst forth on Patriotism: the appointment of a thoroughly Patriot Ministry.
Now as to the day of commencement, which offers difficulties, is it not one of the luckiest coincidences that the Republic herself commenced on the 21st of September; close on the Vernal Equinox?
That this takes place at the vernal equinox, when the matronly Ganri casts her golden mantle over the ripened beauties of the verdant Vasanti.
The line drawn from the sun toward the right of the figure shows the direction to the vernal equinox.
These points are called the equinoxes, Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox for the spring and autumn crossings respectively, and the student will recall that the vernal equinox is the point from which right ascensions are measured.
New York sidereal time means the hour angle of the vernal equinox measured from the meridian of New York, Chicago true solar time is the hour angle of the sun reckoned from the meridian of Chicago, etc.
The Right Ascension of a star is the angle included between its hour circle and the hour circle of a certain point on the equator which is called the Vernal Equinox.
How many days will be required for it to move completely around the ecliptic fromvernal equinox back to vernal equinox again?
The Vernal Equinox (V in the illustration) is also designated as the First Point of Aries which is of use in reckoning star time and will be mentioned in more detail later.
The Vernal Equinox is that one which the sun passes through or intersects in going from S to N declination, and the Autumnal Equinox that which it passes through or intersects in going from N to S declination.
When rose the lark on early wing, The vernaltide to hail; When daisies deck'd the breast of spring, I sought her native vale.
Passing the Salines, and the ruins of Phaneromene on our right, we were soon in the fields, which were yet in all theirvernal glory.
Bids from each sense bright emanations beam, Glows in the rainbow, sparkles in the stream, Smiles in the bud, and glistens in the flower That crowns each vernal bower!
Thou hearest the song of the nightingale, that the vernalseason approaches.
The brief life of the Ideal has burned itself out, as the year, in its vernal beauty when Arthur came, is burning out in autumn.
In the best of many poems which the Poet Laureate has addressed to this, his favourite bird, he sings: Hearing thee first, who pines or grieves For vernal smiles and showers!
Nevertheless we do occasionally see something of these shyer wilder ones, the strangers and passengers; and in London, as in the rural districts, it is the autumnal not the vernal migration which impresses the mind.
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues: Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in morning dews.
Ye scatter'd birds that faintly sing, The reliques o' the vernal queir!
Mild be the sun on this sweet blushing flower, In the gay rosy morn, as it bathes in the dew; And gentle the fall of the soft vernal shower, That steals on the evening each leaf to renew!
Her looks are like the vernal May, When ev'ning Phoebus shines serene, While birds rejoice on every spray; An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.
And mark that eye of fire, Would take His hand, whose vernal tints His other works admire.
Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
As for instance, an astronomer in that age would have said that the vernal equinox was in the time of such and such an observation, in such a sign, and in such a star.
The woods were donning their vernal green and resounded with the calls of birds now.
For each spring is the time of a new creation, the effects, bestowals, perfections and life-giving forces of which are the same as those of the former vernal seasons although the names are many and various.
The ocean of divine mercy is surging, the vernal showers are descending, the Sun of Reality is shining gloriously.
Amid the howl of more than wintry storms, The halcyon hears the voice of vernalhours Already on the wing.
Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden the green earth, and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
To knot, to twist, to range thevernal bloom; But far is cast the distaff, spinning wheel, and loom.
In Attica, Hades, Lord of the Dead, ravishes away Persephone, the vernaldaughter of Demeter.
The rites of Adonis, thevernal year, are, even in the name of the hero, Oriental.
With the vernalequinox my thoughts flow free as Helicon.
From the autumnal to the vernal equinox, as I have told thee, my muse lies dumb, and silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Once, at that season when the ices shrink Befere the vernal equinox, at morn There was no movement in the Lady's room, Who prized the early hours like molten gold, And ever rose before the kingly Sun.
Disease around her couch Long held a tyrant sway, Till vanished from her cheek, the rose, And the fair flesh like vernal snows Wasted away.
Have you not felt the kindly influence of this more than vernal weather, as well as the good effects of your own recommenced regularity?
