A shower on t’moors

Every poet since Chaucer has waxed lyrically about April showers¹Librarius.com. (2022). Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) – ‘The Canterbury Tales’, from General Prologue, ll. 1-42. [online] Available at: http://www.librarius.com/canttran/genpro/genpro001-042.htm [Accessed 1 Apr. 2022].:

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;²When in April the sweet showers fall
That pierce March’s drought to the root and all
And bathed every vein in liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;

and foretold of flowery times for May. But I don’t think many had in mind a blizzard.

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  Librarius.com. (2022). Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) – ‘The Canterbury Tales’, from General Prologue, ll. 1-42. [online] Available at: http://www.librarius.com/canttran/genpro/genpro001-042.htm [Accessed 1 Apr. 2022].
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  When in April the sweet showers fall
  That pierce March’s drought to the root and all
  And bathed every vein in liquor that has power
  To generate therein and sire the flower;