Your DAILY Companion From the Almanac Editors
 Bright, bright, restless bright, through the sun-burnt meads, Wavers the butterfly
Ever across its path a pilot invisible leads
A sylphid fleet of the thistle's light and feathery seeds,
And August passeth by.
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