 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1891 - 560 pages
...ounce of For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest coiner. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1892 - 476 pages
...tasking : 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking ; M No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the...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,... | |
 | Arbor Day - 1892
...live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. — SHAKESPEARE. A SOUL IN GRASS AND FLOWERS'. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect daysThen Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we... | |
 | Duchess - 1892 - 364 pages
...down below are nodding to the evening breeze ; it is the happiest time of all the year, for What is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect clays ; Then heaven tries the earth, if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. 'Well,... | |
 | Adelaide S. Seaverns - Christian life - 1893 - 380 pages
...the swell of some sweet tune Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June. — Longfellow. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days. —James Russell Lowell. SIXTH 1 OYAL June is here in all her sumptuous beauty. Long, bright, glowing... | |
 | Minnesota State Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1894 - 568 pages
...mind one of the same days, which only Minnesota can give — like today — when he said: "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, i And over it softly her warm ear lays." And so we are gathered here in '•This month... | |
 | 1894 - 400 pages
...me on parole on one occasion during my Sophomore year. We all know that poem of Lowell's beginning " And what is so rare as a day in June } Then, if ever, come perfect days." The poet is right ; and I believe as he wrote those lines he was thinking of June days on his old college... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - Teaching - 1894 - 300 pages
...; using a selection quite different in character — Lowell's description of a day in June : — " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come-perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays... | |
 | Myron Cooley - Fishing - 1894 - 180 pages
...stay a month," said Jack, and I echoed the wish. We realized as never before that — "No price is set on the lavish Summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. Whether we look, or whether we listen We hear life murmur or see it glisten." As we lay in bed Jack... | |
 | 1894 - 636 pages
...hills, filling the valley below with golden light. We are led to think with the writer, "O, what is so rare as a day in June, then, if ever, come perfect days." We are very glad to welcome these days for the last fortnight has been a succession of showers and... | |
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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... 
