#January cold desolate;
#February all dripping wet;
#March wind ranges;
#April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of #May,
And sunny #June
Brings longest day;
In scorched #July
The storm-clouds fly
Lightning-torn;
#August bears corn,
#September #Fruit;
In rough #October
#Earth must disrobe her;
#Stars fall and shoot
In keen #November;
And #nNight is long
And #Cold is strong
In #Bleak #December.
- Christina Giorgina Rossetti, The #Months
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