JUNE

by: Horatio Alger (1832-1899)

      hrow open wide your golden gates,
      O poet-lauded month of June,
      And waft me, on your spicy breath,
      The melody of birds in tune.

      O fairest palace of the three,
      Wherein Queen Summer holdeth sway,
      I gaze upon your leafy courts
      From out the vestibule of May.

      I fain would tread your garden walks,
      Or in your shady bowers recline;
      Then open wide your golden gates;
      And make them mine, and make them mine.

"June" is reprinted from Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems. Horatio Alger. Boston: Loring Publisher, 1875.

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