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Two June Nights.

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A red rose in my lady's hair,          A white rose in her fingers,         A wild bird singing low, somewhere,          A song that pulses, lingers.         The sound of dancing and of mirth,          The fiddle's merry chiming,         A smell of earth, of fresh, warm earth,          And honeysuckle climbing;         My lady near, yet far away -          Ah, lonely June of yesterday!         A big white night of velvet sky,          And Milky Way a-gleaming,         The fragrant blue smoke drifting by          From camp-fire brightly beaming;         The stillness of the Northland far -          God's solitudes of splendor -         My road a trail, my chart a star.          Wind, 'mong the balsams slender,         Sing low: O glad June of to-day,          My lady's near, though far away!

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