1 52 JUNE. 



Yet give we, from our wealth of mind, 

 Feeling more grateful or refined 1 

 And yield we unto nature aught 

 Of loftier, or of holier thought, 

 Than they, who gave sublimest power 

 To the small spring and simple fiWer ? 



M. H. 

 June is most probably named from Juno, in 

 honour of whom a festival was held at the be- 

 ginning of the month. 



An old author says " unto June the Saxons 

 gave the name of Weyd-monath ; because their 

 beasts did weyd in the meadows, that is, go to 

 feed there ; and hereof a meadow is called in 

 Teutonic, a weyd ; and of weyd we retain our 

 word wade, which we understand of going 

 through watery places ; such as meadows are 

 wont to be." Another author says that weyd 

 is probably derived from weyden (German) to 

 graze, or to pasture. He further adds, they call 

 it Woed-monath, weed month, and also Mede- 

 monath, Mid-somermonatk, and Breeck-monath, 

 thought to be from the breaking up of the 

 soil, from braecan *( Saxon); they also called it 

 Lida-erra. The word Lida, or Litha, signifying 

 in Icelandic, to move, or pass over, may imply 

 the sun's passing over its greatest height; and 

 Lida-erra consequently means the first month 

 of the sun's descent. Lida, it is added, has 

 been affirmed to mean smooth air. 



