New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-30
THE TRIBUNE.
By VIZ. H. c. HosME7-

Fancy. with prophetic glance
Sees The teeunicg months aoSance'
Sees Juue unfold his glossy rooe
ar thousand bues DER all the globe
'-'Na'' Thomas WaTs9".
ARnlpA's garden. ever bright
And odorous with enchanted ho~ers,
Wa. not more rich in bloom and hight
Than now. il this fair world of ours
While June floats on the melting air,
with rose buds in his lustrous hair,
Above the grave of Spring =
On high the feecy clouds are piled.
And round him. with twi,,er wild,
Dart swallows On the wing.
Where spreads the meadow. broad and long,
Its velvet TO the rivers brink
There is rivalry in song
Between the lark and oobolink
While sunny skies drop golden rain,
The former pours fife-liks strain
From her expanding throat
The latter, on some grassy spire,
Rocks 10 and fro feathered Tyre
OF fall, voluptuous note.
Gay, voiceful things, In every hue
That paints the braided rainbow clad
And overfed with honey.dew,
Dart by deliriously giad
An elm crowd are hlher drawn,
And mourning grasps King Oberon
A dimmed and broken wand
For youthful June hath made the face
OF earth sweeter dwelling place
Than even FAIRY Land
Vans, richly striped, young butterflies,
Percbed on the flowers. expand ana Close
And humble bees, with waxen thighs,
Paw noisy visits to the rose.
Urns that the wine of morning hold
Lure. clothed in purple. green and gold,
The restless humming bird;
An opal. flashing in the light,
Compared with hues that deck the sprlte,
Would dull appear and blurred
Laburnums, by the zephyr wooed,
Their yellow ringlets lightly shake,
And, types of graceful maidenhood,
Tall lilies from ,heir slumber wake.
Kissing each other while they fing
Elysan fragrance forth, and swing
Upon their tiexile stalks;
Ceringas rustic draped with snow,
And peones with purple strow
The level garden walks.
ST. Johns charmed Eve was hailed OF yore
With feast and dance in England old,
But down The yerdaut slope no more
The redly blazing wheel is rolled
No more the dewy moonit glade
Is 7isited by loveborn maid
For plant of magic power,
That placed beneath her pillowed head,
Would waken dreams Of woe and dread,
Or the glad nuptial hour.
VII.
When Tyrian dyes no longer paint
The cloudy portals of the West,
The whippowil begins her plant
With swelling neck and lhrobbing breast
Each note Of Nights mysterious bird
By listener far away. is heard
Sad as the dlrge of joy;
Or cry. by pale Enone raised,
Hunting, while stars on Ida gazed,
For her Dardanian boy.
VIII.
When hushed the robins vesper song.
BY moonlight to the woods HE.
Then couch me down. and listen long
To voices that go wandering by;
Wind, wave and leaf in CONCERT blend.
And tones. by day unhesrd ascend
From glen and messy floor;
That wondrous music. soft and low,
Heard by the con OF Prospero,
Would not enchant me more.
yearning in the heart awakes
From human neishborhood 10 flee,
And tread the shores Of breezy lakes,
Or climb the hills, rover free;
AWAY voice upon me calls
Thy cheek its color from the walls
That hem thee in hath caught;
Go forth and on thy troubled brain
Will. angel.like. descend again
The holy calm Of thought"
Oh June with thee return no more
The feelings OF my boyhood wild:
Earth. then. u brighter vesture wore
More graciousy the morning smiled
The rudy straw berries Of old
Drew flavor from a richer mould
Than those gather now
More kindly dew by night was showered,
Aud sw athed in deeper azure lowered
The mountains piney brow.
" Man changes with the lapse Of years -
A low, rebuking voice replies
:. He hears, at length. with other ears,
And sees. alas. with other eyesl
Back comes young Summer with the glow
Tha; flushed her features long ago,
And Nature still is true;
But hopes that charmed thy youth are dead
The sunshine of Thy heart ia fled,
Its innocency too.
doom June. 1886.
AS AN emblem Of the Sun. Il was customary In En
d. on ST. Johns Evc 10 bind old wheel with stra
tow take IL 10 the top OF HILL set fire to the cor
,,ibles and then roll II down the declvity" Smith.