Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 643
ill, hot twang of the har-vest-fly, which might be the very voice of theAugust noon, complaining of its own heat. The violets, and almost all the roses, are gonebefore midsummer comes, and flowers as well asbirds are fewer than in June. But you will findthe fragrant white pyrola in the shade of the… … that will fill you more completely with the spiritof midsummer than to loiter on a July afternoonthrough a pasture in which the young birches havecome up wherever they liked, and listen to themas they whisper among themselves in the sultryweather. The signs of midsummer arc almost entirelysights…
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