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What joy have I in June's return?

Quote byThomas Hood · 1799–1845

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2..

English (original)

What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched—my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust."

— Thomas Hood

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