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HUSH! PRETTY FLOWERS.

Y dearest roses, hold your tongue;
Blue bells, you must not nod;

Hush, honeysuckles, you're too young;
Sweet peas, don't shake your pod.
Little daisy, you amaze me!

Heather, pray silence keep—

Chatter, clatter, what's the matter?

How can I go to sleep?

Child World.

July 1st.

JULY.

Tnd God in thunder passeth by!

HE year is full! 'tis bright July,

Far in the fields till close of day,
The peasant people make the hay;
And darker grows the forest bough,
And singing birds are silent now.

Anon.

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July 20.

SWEET THOUGHTS.

WEET thoughts can never die,
Though like the flowers,
Their brighter hues may fly

In wintry hours.

But when the gentle dew'

Gives them their charms anew,

With many an added hue,

They bloom again.

Abby Hutchinson.

DIPPING DOLLY.

7IIAT can I do,

WHAT

Dolly, for you?

'Tis very warm weather,
Dolly, 'tis true!

All your fine petticoats off you shall slip-
Dolly, my darling, I'll give you a dip!

From "Little Folks."

July 4th.

SING, MAIDEN.

SING, maiden, sing!

Mouths were made for singing;

Listen,-songs thou'lt hear

Through all the wide world ringing;

Songs from all the birds,

Songs from winds and showers,

Songs from seas and streams,

Even from sweet flowers.

Barry Cornwall.

July 5th.

NATURE'S DARLING.

HREE years she grew in sun and shower,

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Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower

On earth was never sown :

This child I to myself will take:

She shall be mine, and I will make

A lady of my own."

Wordsworth.