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A SONG IN JUNE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


On a rosebush that grows in the garden you love
There are three opening buds on a single green stem;
And they dream as they nod to your window above
That it would not be June if it were not for them.

There's an oriole brave as a prince on his throne
In his orange-and-black in the mulberry-tree.
As he flutes to a world that he knows for his own,
"Oh, it would not be June if it were not for me!"

Let the oriole sing to the earth and the sky,
And the roses unfold to the kiss of the dew!
But the light of my soul is the glance of your eye,
And it would not be June if it were not for you.





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