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O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
(Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), U.S. writer ("H. H."; "Saxe Holm"). October's Bright Blue Weather (l. 1-4). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
(Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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June is bustin' out all over.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. June is Bustin' Out All Over (song), Carousel (stage musical, 1945; film, 1956).)
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I like New York in June.
(Ralph Freed (1907-1973), U.S. songwriter. "How About You?" Babes on Broadway, Leo Feist, Inc. (1941).
Music composed by Burton Lane (b. 1912).)
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It's June in January because I'm in love.
(Leo Robin (1900-1984), U.S. songwriter. "June in January," Here Is My Heart, Famous Music Corp. (1934).
Music composed by Ralph Rainger(1900-1942).)
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He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 2, l. 75-6.
To the Prince, about Richard II.)
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ...
(M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), U.S. culinary writer and autobiographer. Vin et Fromage, Introduction (1981).
In English, the title of this book (which was written and published in the United States) is "Wine and Cheese." The book's authors are Marylou Scavarda and Kate Sater.)
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In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Victors.")
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