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JUNE.
A SONNET.
Hail! fervid, flowery, leafy, lusty June!First-born of Summer! heir of lavish light!
Month of the genial Morn,—the glowing Noon,—
The dreamy Evening,—the delicious Night!
Season of sunny Harvest, when the hand
Of jocund Toil, 'mid busy-wingèd bees,
Rifles the riches of the grassy leas,
And scatters rural fragrance o'er the land!
Fain would I hail thee, wheresoe'er and when
My feelings prompted, or my fancy led;—
In slumberous forests—on the mountain's head—
By lonely streams, on moorlands high and dun,
In ferny dingles shaded from the sun—
Apart, but not exiled, from cities and from men.
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