A familiar spring journey makes a man wistful

Farmer planting
A farmer plants a field near Collegeville Minn.
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Tennyson says that in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, but spring -- plus a trip down an old familiar road -- has commentator Peter Smith feeling a bit melancholy.

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