 | 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,... | |
 | 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«,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...tasking : 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June V Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over... | |
 | Music - 1862 - 432 pages
...480. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1861. VOL. XIX. No. 11. A Lay in June. And what is ю rare as a dny in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days : Then heaven tries the earth if it he in tune, And over it softly her warm car lays : Whether we look, or whether, we listen, We henr... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...autumn woods." Contrast the following, one of the best of his descriptions, with " Thanatopsis :" — " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then if ever...come perfect days, Then Heaven tries the Earth if it he in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life... | |
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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... 
