THE PAGEANT OF SUMMER 



repellant brambles will presently present 

 us with fruit. For the squirrels the nuts 

 are forming, green beechmast is there 

 green wedges under the spray; up in the 

 oaks the small knots, like bark rolled up 

 in a dot, will be acorns. Purple vetches 

 along the mounds, yellow lotus where the 

 grass is shorter, and orchis succeeds to 

 orchis. As I write them, so these things 

 come not set in gradation, but like the 

 broadcast flowers in the mowing grass. 



Now follows the gorse, and the pink 

 rest-harrow, and the sweet lady's bed- 

 straw, set as it were in the midst of a 

 little thorn-bush. The broad repetition 

 of the yellow clover is not to be written ; 

 acre upon acre, and not one spot of 

 green, as if all the green had been planed 

 away, leaving only the flowers to which 

 the bees come by the thousand from far 

 and near. But one white campion 

 stands in the midst of the lake of yellow. 

 The field is scented as though a hundred 

 hives of honey had been emptied on it. 



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