Scheming In The Spring

While Flandry schemes and sabotages on Scotha, spring, soon to be succeeded by summer, seems to sing of his success:

"Spring breezes blew soft through the garden and woke rustling in trees. A deep odor of green life was upon it. Somewhere in twilight, a creature not unlike a bird was singing. The ancient promise of summer to come stirred in the blood."
-Poul Anderson, "Tiger by the Tail" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 241-276 AT p. 269.

Flandry and Gunli:

feel the breeze;
see the garden;
hear the trees;
smell the life;
hear the song;
feel the promise.

Matters are now out of his hands. Both have grown thin. But their machinery is in motion and nothing can stop it.