SUMMER 



(A Definition) 



By Hope H. Girard 



1. Hungry robins, 

 Clear blue skies; 

 Flying swifts 

 Darting flies. 



2. Open barn doors, 

 Cooing ring-doves ; 

 Tell-tale echoes, 

 Downy foxgloves. 



3. Modest harebells, 

 Brier roses; 

 Honey suckle. 

 Morning-glories. 



4. Busy wasps. 

 Loaded trees; 

 Fields of clover, 

 Working bees. 



5. Waving cornfields. 

 Pale full moon; 

 Silver wheat fields. 

 Early dawn. 



6. Dancing shadows, 

 Tumbling rills. 

 Fleecy clouds, 

 Verdant hills. 



7. Sparkling eddies, 

 Rollicking falls; 

 Nestling ferns, 

 Woodland calls. 



8. Dewy grassplots, 

 Gushing showers, 

 Leafy arbors, 

 Loafing hotirs. 



9. Treasures hidden. 

 Colors brightened; 

 Quiet growth, 

 Fancy ripened. 



10. Beauty's splendor, 

 Harvest alluring; 

 Growing in fullness, 

 Life-right assuring ! 



II. Full ^of glories 

 Without number, 

 Is the season, 

 Our summer! 



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