a summer day.
147
She listens to the lovers' vows,
To labour gives her blessing;
She cheers the farmer as he ploughs,
And dances 'neath the naked boughs,
Calling in tones caressing
To bud and leaf,
"My time is brief,
So hasten with your dressing."
To labour gives her blessing;
She cheers the farmer as he ploughs,
And dances 'neath the naked boughs,
Calling in tones caressing
To bud and leaf,
"My time is brief,
So hasten with your dressing."
She works and sings the livelong day,
And sets ambition climbing;
She drives our morbid fears away
With sunny smiles and carols gay,
And sets Hope's bells a-chiming.
Thus do we sing
Of lovely Spring,
Who sets the poets rhyming.
And sets ambition climbing;
She drives our morbid fears away
With sunny smiles and carols gay,
And sets Hope's bells a-chiming.
Thus do we sing
Of lovely Spring,
Who sets the poets rhyming.
A Summer Day.
Calm as a lake the ocean lies,
Reflecting in her smiling face
The snow-white clouds and azure skies,
Of Winter storms she bears no trace,
And where the stronger currents run,
A thousand little wavelets bright
Are scintillating in the sun,
Like twinkling stars on frosty night.
Reflecting in her smiling face
The snow-white clouds and azure skies,
Of Winter storms she bears no trace,
And where the stronger currents run,
A thousand little wavelets bright
Are scintillating in the sun,
Like twinkling stars on frosty night.
