Or, it’s time for that July title contest. The rules (once more, with feeling): post in the comments your favorite quote with the word “July” in it.* Winner gets their quote put up in the title bar (up there, where it currently says “So we got married in Venice in June, So what?”) and their blog/website/whatever gets a month-long gig heading up the randomized permalinks over there on the left.
*For example:
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die,
Autumn frosts have slain July.
— from “Of Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
Any questions?
I stayed at home on the Fourth of July
And I pulled the shades so I didn't have to see the sky
And I decided to have a Bed In
But I forgot to invite anybody
— from "Fourth of July" by Galaxie 500
July, she will fly, and give no warning of her flight. - Paul Simon
Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools’ Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.
- Sylvia Plath, "You're"
Answer July --
Where is the Bee --
Where is the Blush --
Where is the Hay?
- Emily Dickinson, "Answer July"
No summer breeze
Is this, though hot July is at its height,
Gone is her gentler music;
- Amy Lowell, "At Night"
And in a totally different mood:
Let man never again raise his eyes,
on a soft July night.
- Anne Sexton, from "After Auschwitz"