Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
By Johannes Carl Andersen147 . Summer
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Adorn the summer stillness?
And did young Spring pass over thee
In chillness?
On petalled breezes blown,
But in their beauty freezes
Thine own.
Yet love in thee is dumb,—
Flowers fall, fruits ripen, corn is sheafed,
Ho! Winter’s cold will come.
Dew-soft, around thee brightly,
And blossoms on the grey hawthorn
Lie whitely,
And learn, through new-found bliss,
No time so joyous, fleeting,
As this.
And singing in thy heart,
And learn, ’mid trees, with flowers and skies,
How young and dear thou art.