| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1229. To a June Breeze |
| | | Being a Lover’s Message to His Mistress A-summering |
| | | By Henry Cuyler Bunner |
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| WIND of the City Streets, | |
| Impatient to be free, | |
| In this dull time of heats | |
| My love takes wings to flee: | |
| Leave thou this idle Town | 5 |
| And hunt Her down. | |
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| Wherever She may stay, | |
| By Sea or Mountain-side, | |
| Make thou thy airy Way, | |
| If there She bide; | 10 |
| If sea-spray kiss Her face; | |
| Or hills find grace. | |
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| And, having found Her out, | |
| On Sands or under Trees, | |
| Say that I wait in doubt, | 15 |
| To melt with love, or freeze: | |
| Nor yet hath Summer stirred, | |
| But waits Her word. | |
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| Say that, if She so please, | |
| These ways so dusty-dry, | 20 |
| With their poor song-shunned Trees, | |
| Shall ring with Melody; | |
| And turn Love’s Wilderness, | |
| If She say Yes. | |
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| But if my Fate fall so | 25 |
| That She will naught of me, | |
| Tell Her the Winter’s snow | |
| Shall strip the greenest tree: | |
| One only Frost I fear— | |
| She makes my year. | 30 |
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| Go, then, sweet Wind, and pray | |
| That She remember | |
| She makes my March or May, | |
| June or December— | |
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| If Town grow green with trees, | 35 |
| If the new Blossoms freeze, | |
| Hers it is but to say,— | |
| Pray Her that so She please— | |
| Pray Her remember! | |
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