July / Robert F. Skillings

July

A very pleasant month is this
    To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss,
Each verdant leaflet beams with bliss,
    I see not one that's brown.

Fresh zephyrs fan the thrifty trees
    The oaks, the elms, the willows,
The lake's face caressed by the breeze
In imitation of the seas,
    Is flecked with tiny billows.

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Robert F. Skillings (1819-1902)
from Local and National Poets of America, 1890
[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Photo: English Summer(ish). Photo by Alan Myers, 2010. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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