Answer July -
Where is the Bee -
Where is the Blush -
Where is the Hay ?

Ah, said July-
Where is the Seed -
Where is the Bud -
Where is the May -
Answer Thee - Me -

Nay - said the May -
Show me the snow -
Show me the Bells -
Show me the Jay !

Quibbled the Jay -
Where be the Maize -
Where be the Haze -
Where be the Bur ?
Here - said the Year -

Emily Dickinson (about 1862)