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5 literary passages to celebrate summer 2015

This week marks the official start of summer, 2015. Here to salute the new season, are five great passages about summer from writers past and present.

3. Verlyn Klinkenbourg, 鈥淢ore Scenes from the Rural Life"

鈥淭he last couple of nights I鈥檝e stood at the edge of the pasture watching the fireflies. They rise from the grass, flickering higher and higher until one of the turns into the blinking lights of a jet flying eastward far above the horizon. I can feel rather than see the bats working around the house and in the coves between the trees."

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