Poems (Tynan)/Summer Night
SUMMER NIGHT
All in the leafy lanes
The glow-worm lights his lamp.
The nightingale complains
In scented dew and damp.
The glow-worm lights his lamp.
The nightingale complains
In scented dew and damp.
The nightingale her ache
Bares to the lonely night,
When there is none awake,
Nothing in vale or height.
Bares to the lonely night,
When there is none awake,
Nothing in vale or height.
The glow-worm lights his lamp
Under the blossomed may,
Hung in the dew and damp
His lamp lights up the way.
Under the blossomed may,
Hung in the dew and damp
His lamp lights up the way.
The nightingale complains
All night to field and grove;
The glow-worm in the lanes
Hath lit a lamp to Love.
All night to field and grove;
The glow-worm in the lanes
Hath lit a lamp to Love.