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In June.

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Deep in the West a berry-coloured bar     Of sunset gleams; against which one tall fir     Is outlined dark; above which - courier     Of dew and dreams - burns dusk's appointed star.     And flash on flash, as when the elves wage war     In Goblinland, the fireflies bombard     The stillness; and, like spirits, o'er the sward     The glimmering winds bring fragrance from afar.     And now withdrawn into the hill-wood belts     A whippoorwill; while, with attendant states     Of purple and silver, slow the great moon melts     Into the night - to show me where she waits, -     Like some slim moonbeam, - by the old beech-tree,     Who keeps her lips, fresh as a flower, for me.

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