June.

Indeed I feel as if I came too soon

To round your young May moon,

And set the world a-gasping at my noon,

Yet must I come. So here are strawberries,

Sun-flushed and sweet, as many as you please;

And there are full-blown roses by the score,

More roses and yet more.

(May, eating strawberries, withdraws among the flower beds.)

June.