How it the purple flower does slight, Because so long divided from the sphere; Till the warm sun pities its pain, - Andrew Marvell. Puck. Ho PUCK AND THE FAIRY. OW now, spirit! whither wander you? HOW Through bush, through brier, Through flood, through fire, In those freckles live their savors; "Midsummer-Night's Dream," TO JUNE. M AY'S a word 'tis sweet to hear, Laughter of the budding year; Sweet it is to start, and say On May morning, "This is May!" But there also breathes a tune, Hear it, in the sound of - "June." June's a month, and June's a name, And the very color's tone Of the brown wood's cottage smoke, -James Henry Leigh Hunt. SUMMER. HE Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue; Her chalice rear'd of silver bright; The lark sent down her revelry; The blackbird and the speckled thrush Her notes of peace, and rest, and love. "Lady of the Lake." Walter Scott. SONG OF THE SUMMER WINDS. TP the dale and down the bourne, UP O'er the meadow swift we fly; Now we sing, and now we mourn, By the grassy-fringèd river, Through the murmuring reeds we sweep; To their very hearts we creep. Now the maiden rose is blushing While aside her cheek we're rushing, Like some truant bees at play. Through the blooming groves we rustle, Kissing every bud we pass, — As we did it in the bustle, Down the glen, across the mountain, Bending down the weeping willows, There of idlenesses dreaming, - George Darley. BE Whose branching pines rise dark and high, And hear the breezes of the West Among the thread-like foliage sigh. Sweet Zephyr! why that sound of woe? To meet thy kiss at morning hours? And lo! thy glorious realm outspread Yon stretching valleys, green and gay, And yon free hill-tops o'er whose head The loose white clouds are borne away. And there the full broad river runs, And many a fount wells fresh and sweet, To cool thee when the mid-day suns Have made thee faint beneath their heat. Thou wind of joy, and youth, and love, Spirit of the new-wakened year, The sun in his blue realm above Smooths a bright path when thou art here. |