EVENING IN JUNE.

The purple lilac with the dark green leaves

A subtle perfume spreads o'er fields wherein

The meadow-lark with clear full singing cleaves

The choral air. The rossignols begin

A blither song, where the treacherous spiders spin

Their shimmering webs. The robin o'er her young

Chirps cheerfully, or starts the frighted din.

Till the night oriole lights his lamp among

The blooms of marigold and spotted adder's tongue.