With summer warmth the sunshine streams
O'er hill and valley, heavenly bright;
Afar, the flooded river gleams,
A blinding sea of silver light.
Dried are the dewy diamond drops
That shivered on the acorn leaves,
And through the spaces of the copse
Her thousand threads Arachne weaves.
Now chants the blackbird on the bush,
Deceived with hope of early spring,
And on the tree a speckled thrush
Opens his silvery throat to sing;
And stooping down, beneath my feet,
Protected by mouldering leaves,
And fostered by the kindly heat,
The crimson-pointed primrose heaves
Her sturdy growth towards the light,
In many a cluster richly set,
And trailing ivy, green and bright,
Shelters the slumbering violet.
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