June

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“In the month of June the grass grows high, And round my cottage thick-leaved branches sway. There is not a bird but delights in the place where it rests: And I too—love my thatched cottage.”

-by T’ao Ch’ien, 4th century Chinese poet, who tired of the trappings of his career in civil service, retired at the age of 33 to a simple cottage on the slope of Mount Lu south of the Yangtze River to write, read and work in his garden.

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