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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Lyrics. I. A Summer Wind

Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914)

O WIND, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees,

And all thy royalties

Sweep through the land to-day.

It is mid June,

And thou, with all thy instruments in tune,

Thine orchestra

Of heaving fields and heavy swinging fir,

Strikest a lay

That doth rehearse

Her ancient freedom to the universe.

All other sound in awe

Repeats its law:

The bird is mute; the sea

Sucks up its waves; from rain

The burthened clouds refrain,

To listen to thee in thy leafery,

Thou unconfined,

Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summer wind.