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 "id": "mary-weston-fordham/june",
 "title": "June",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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 "sequence": 46,
 "container": null,
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "I am the month when roses",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bloom brightest o’er the glade,",
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   {
    "text": "I am the month when marriages",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I lost happily are made.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Mine is the time of foliage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When hills and valleys teem",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With buds and vines sweet scented,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All clothed in glowing green.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "My nights are bright and starry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My days are long and clear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And truly I’m the fairest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of all months in the year.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "With night dews gently falling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With bees upon the wing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tiny rills soft rippling",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Amid the valleys sing.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The farmer with his ploughshare,",
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   {
    "text": "Swift turning up the sod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His brawny arms at labor,",
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   {
    "text": "His soul with Nature’s God.",
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   {
    "text": "The Lark with sweetest carol,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doth greet the rising sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Mock-bird at the even,",
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   {
    "text": "Loud whistles day is done.",
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   {
    "text": "O! I’m the month of beauty,",
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   {
    "text": "The summer’s crown I claim,",
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   {
    "text": "Now whisper to me softly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tell me what’s my name.",
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