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Summer in the Garden
It is sweet to lie on the green grass near flowers- Marigolds and asters that butterflies drift over. It is sweet to lie through an afternoon's hours- Bees' hum and flies' drone and smell of clover. Let your heart be quiet in the green shade of trees- Summer and flowers are enough for your needs. Gold sun and kind shade and the brown bees- Summer is gracious when the heart heeds. Summer is a drowsy time of long golden quiet, When sleek-bodied humming-birds to the garden come; Take your empty heart-fill it with summer's riot- Clover-sweet and flies' drone and slow bee-hum.