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Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand, Can health, wealth, and long life command. - Unattributed Author, June, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371 Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver. - Charles Hamilton Aide, Danube River I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break. - William Cullen Bryant, June What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust." - Thomas Hood, Town and Country--Old Imitated from Horace June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial. - Lucy Larcom, Death of June (l. 1) And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. - James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. - James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. I, prelude) So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see; So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee. - Nora Perry, In June It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses. - Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Month of June
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