Was a-gitten’ there like me,
And June was Eternity?”
James Whitcomb, Knee-deep in June (1888).
June.
“What is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays.”
James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal.
Juno’s Birds. Juno is represented in works of art as drawn through fields of air by a pair of peacocks harnessed to her chariot.