July

is the month when mothers are again reminded why schoolteachers need long summer vacations.

July is the month when mothers are again reminded why schoolteachers need long summer vacations.

is a month whose heat brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.

Hot July brings cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers.

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is a month whose air stirs in willow leaves, as a butterfly floats and balances.

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

is the month of expectation, but pompous joy betrays us, as his first betrothal betrays a boy.

March is the month of expectation, / The things we do not know, / The Persons of Prognostication / Are coming now. / We try to sham becoming firmness, / But pompous joy / Betrays us, as his first betrothal / Betrays a boy.

is a month whose sun raises but doesn't dissolve.

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

is a month that can be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp, with some days like copper pennies in the sunlight.

July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

is cool and refreshing swims, and beach picnics.

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