 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1873 - 532 pages
...troubling and the weary are at rest." 'Joyous' example for 'pure quality'and happy'median streu. " And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days j Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...under the trees, in lovely summer weather, the kind of day of which Lowell thought when he wrote : " And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days." When the sky is a beautiful deep blue, with fluffy white clouds scattered in billowy masses over its... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking. The Vision of Sir Launfal. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Ibid. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...poet in America, though ho is not so well known as Mr. Longfellow. Ho was born in 1819. OH ! what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth it' it be in tune, And over it soltly her warm car lays : — A DAY IN JUNE. 157 Whether we look, or... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - English literature - 1874 - 362 pages
...contains that happy form of words which has gone into the current commonplace of poetical quotation — And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days. Mr. Lowell's quality is not such as to have enriched the commonplace books with many passages of similar... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever,...it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - Devotional exercises - 1875 - 400 pages
...host of them. THERE is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten. Every clod feels a stir... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking. TTie Vision of Sir LaunfalAnd what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Ibid. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1875 - 486 pages
...had for the asking, No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest comer. 4. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever,...Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it s6ftly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten... | |
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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; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels... 
