"Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death."
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John Clare, July; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 412.
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