Mrs. Mary Noel McDonald

Succession of Sonnets

COME with thy rose-wreaths, fair and laughing June!

Fling thy rich odors upon every gale;

Bid the blue waters wake their blithest tune,

And joy and light and melody prevail.

Thou hast a store of treasures, and with thee

We look for all things lovely: butterflies

Flit like winged jewels ’neath thy sunny skies;

And roam, with tones of music, bird, and bee.

Thou art the loveliest of the sisters three,—

Summer’s most beauteous child! O, still delay,

Fairest of months! thy parting; fondly stay,

And pour thy radiant smiles on lake and lea;

Bear not from earth thy blessed gifts so soon;

Stay, stay thy flight, O fair and laughing June!