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" And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir... "
The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes - Page 304
by James Russell Lowell - 1863
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 38-39

Fashion - 740 pages
...bracelets, and take leas velvet, but they an not so pretty. Paris, May 10th. THE GARDEN. — JUN E. " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm car lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1849 - 648 pages
...suspended over the department ; a happy idea, it must be allowed, of general publication. A DAY IN JUNE. AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; The heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look,...
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The (Old) Farmer's Almanack, Issues 69-78

Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...0 3 3 21 3ï 4 feet 11 42 45S •••• MMMM •«ew^M •мяиншн JUNE hath 30 days. 18G9. And what is so rare as a day in June ! Then, if ever, come perfect days. * * * There's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. Я ¿ Aspect«,...
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Holden's Dollar Magazine, Volume 3

1849 - 390 pages
...has never been snrpassed by any passage of English poetry : And what is so rare as a day in Jnne ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tnne, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether \ve look, or whether we listen, We hear life mnrmnr,...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...Than the loudest breath of fame." as n JR LoaxU. YIT HAT is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if over, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And o'er it softly her warm ear lays ": Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see...
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...HINCKLEY said that in the early morning he had thought of quoting the words of Lowell, — "What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect...; Then heaven tries the earth, if it be in tune." External nature had somewhat spoiled his intended speech, but ram in the country when the grass is...
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North American Second Class Reader

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1853 - 300 pages
...; ch like tah. BENEATH ; e long in each syllable, th flat. BEEN ; Inn, not bin. WAESI ; sound ther. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, corne perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth, if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

1854 - 362 pages
...dearer to me, and my infant buds, Than the loudest breath of fame." $t gag in |m». j; .R. IVfHAT is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect...Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And o'er it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The Vision of Sir Launfal. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The Changeling. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 436 pages
...exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold." It was a perfect day of June. And what is so rare ns a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then...earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm cur lavs: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod...
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