Stephen Paget was an English surgeon, medical writer, and essayist. He is also remembered for his writing for young readers and for his work in medical biography.
Stephen Paget
I Wonder: Essays for the Young People
Macmillan, 1911.
Not long ago, I was in Regent's Park: and so was the Spring. Blue sky, pink almond-blossom, and green buds, were given away to all: and I had done nothing to deserve this treat. It is true that I had been chilled and fogged by a most unkind March: and I did feel that the Spring was bound to warm and air me, and to make me fairly comfortable. She had kept me waiting so long, while she was putting on her new gown: she could hardly say now that she was not at home...
The author had a career in medicine before establishing himself as 'an eloquent and accessible writer for young people...his self-deprecating humour, his classical learning, and his lack of self-righteousness made him a popular writer in his generation' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
All that she had, she gave to me. For my sake, she had woven light and air into a veil, set the almond-blossom against the sky, and covered the hedges with shining buds: she had even remembered to put the amethysts on the dwarf rhododendrons at the lower right-hand corner of the Broad Walk, just to please me. To the rest of us she was equally kind; she made love to us all. But the point is, that she made it to me; and would have made it none the less, if I had been the only man there: indeed she would have made it all the more...Am I God, that Spring should thus work miracles in my name, and give her Kingdom to me?