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SHADOWS by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT

First Line: IF ALL THE YEAR WERE JUNE
Last Line: HOW COULD I WEEP?
Subject(s): JUNE; NIGHT; BEDTIME;
If all the year were June,
With tangled roses and the bumble-bee,
In honeysuckle murmuring happily,
In lilies deep asleep at noon;
While sweet birds fill the sky,
How could I die?

If all the year were night,
A tempest past, the pure moon shining clear,
When all the glowing stars in heaven seem near
The slumbering earth wrapped in still light;
When pain is hushed in sleep,
How could I weep?



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