O June has lit her splendid lamp...

O June has lit her splendid lamp

In the broad meadow lush and damp,

Where loves the brook in loops to loiter,

And tufted vernal to pitch its camp!

Last night she veiled the starlit sky,

And walked beside the brook so shy;

She took from out her beating bosom

A lighted orchis — and passed on high.

At dawn July came o'er the hills —

O light of eye and deep heart-thrills,

As she beheld the glowing orchis

Whose splendor now all the meadow fills!