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midsummer

The time of the summer solstice, about 21 June. Midsummer Day, 24 June, is the Christian festival of St John the Baptist.



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Laurence sat in a recess near the book-ease, reading, not for the first time, the Midsummer Night's Dream.
The intervals of silence grew longer and longer, the voice fainter and farther, and by midsummer it was heard no more.
But the fir-wood behind the little house was forever green and staunch; and even in November and December there came gracious days of sunshine and purple hazes, when the harbor danced and sparkled as blithely as in midsummer, and the gulf was so softly blue and tender that the storm and the wild wind seemed only things of a long-past dream.
 
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