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How Short The Summers Have Grown

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Day
1
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Writtcn for the Courier. April the month of sliowers, scem'd bt a dav And tlien the month of flowers, the gentle May Snuled on thecarth and eacli had pasïed away. June carne, the loveliest month in all the year As a weet angel ; it was scarcely here V hen wc, as mourners, stood bcsidc ts bier. July and August next; but could it bc I hat Uicy wilt I mie of one ianiily 1 Mie wis the cldirbut tbc milder onc, rhcy drew thuir ferver from a tropic sun Hlnzed on the world and Ixrth of them werc conc ' And now September hast's; its genial rain íreshens the flowers and spreads the green aeain Adown tlie values and across the plain ; How soon its work of blessing will be ore And bright September, too, UI be no moré I Teil me, (loar friencls, how, in this world of ours, Whose rtays and nights :,r Ionj; and alow the hours, rut gatliercd into months, Üicy pass us by Almost as tracelcss and as rapidly As the faint meteors of the cvening sky?

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News