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First Line: Fair lady june, proud queen of all the year
Last Line: And not for month or maid shall autumn wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): June


FAIR Lady June, proud Queen of all the year,
With blossom-sceptre in thy royal hand --
Vaunt not thyself: though long thy days and dear.
Thy days and thee Time's sway cannot withstand.

Thy splendid sun may kindle the proud morn;
And the high noon may glow with love of thee:
Sunset shall laugh thy longest day to scorn,
And mocking stars its overthrow shall see.

Roses shall wither, though their lavish praise
The nightingales have chanted all night long:
Their fragrant ghosts shall throng the silent ways
Those swift-winged laureates once thrilled with song.

And thou, fair Maid, bright daughter of the June,
Dost thou not know thy youth, like hers, is brief? --
For thee the glad day, and the bird's glad tune;
And then the waning year, the wind-blown leaf.

The rising stars shall mock thy setting sun,
And watch with curious eyes thy fallen state:
Glad month! glad maid! -- for both the swift sands run --
And not for month or maid shall Autumn wait.






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