JUNE. 



Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; 

 and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. 



Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments, and let no 

 flower of the spring pass by us. 



.Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered. 

 THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON, ii. 6 8. 



WELCOME once more to sweet June, the month 

 which comes 



Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned. 



Yet it is almost startling to those who regret the 

 speed of time, and especially of those 



Who like the soil, who like the clement skies, 

 Who like the verdant hills, and flowery plains, 



to behold how far the season has advanced. But 

 with this we must be sensibly struck, if we give a 

 retrospective glance to the days when, in our walks, 

 we hailed with delight the first announcements of a 

 new spring ; the first snatch of milder air ; the first 

 peep of green ; the first flowers which dared the 

 unsettled elements ; snowdrops, primroses, violets, 

 and then a thousand beautiful and short-lived blooms. 



