Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Idyll

by Siegfried Sassoon

For works with similar titles, see Idyll.

IDYLL

In the grey summer garden I shall find youWith day-break and the morning hills behind you.There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.Not from the past you'll come, but from that deepWhere beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:And I shall know the sense of life re-bornFrom dreams into the mystery of mornWhere gloom and brightness meet. And standing thereTill that calm song is done, at last we'll shareThe league-spread, quiring symphonies that areJoy in the world, and peace, and dawn's one star.