SUMMER SONGS

How thick the grass,

How green the shade —

All for love

And lovers made.

Wood-lilies white

As hidden lace —

Open your bodice,

That's their place.

See how the sun-god

Overpowers

The summer lying

Deep in flowers;

With burning kisses

Of bright gold

Fills her young womb

With joy untold;

And all the world

Is lad and lass,

A blue sky

And a couch of grass.