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JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE ON THE TOP OF THE DOWN
Last Line: AS THE GREEN OF THE BRACKEN AMID THE GLOOM OF THE HEATHER.
Subject(s): JUNE;
THERE on the top of the down,
The wild heather round me and over me June's high blue,
When I look'd at the bracken so bright and the heather so brown,
I thought to myself I would offer this book to you,
This, and my love together,
To you that are seventy-seven,
With a faith as clear as the heights of the June-blue heaven,
And a fancy as summer-new
As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather.





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