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.