| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 590. Unfulfilment |
| | | By Frances Louisa Bushnell |
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| AH, June is here, but where is May?— | |
| That lovely, shadowy thing, | |
| Fair promiser of fairer day, | |
| That made my fancy stretch her wing, | |
| In hope-begetting spring. | 5 |
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| The spaces vague, the luminous veil, | |
| The drift of bloom and scent, | |
| Those dreamy longings setting sail, | |
| That knew not, asked not, where they went,— | |
| Ah! was this all they meant,— | 10 |
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| This day that lets me dream no more, | |
| This bright, unshadowed round? | |
| On some illimitable shore, | |
| The harbor whither those were bound | |
| Lieth, nor yet is found. | 15 |
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