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SEASON GREETINGS
Summertime is here. Let us regal in the season of golden light and ripening grains and fruits. The harvest will be bountiful if we still tend our gardens.

"A Summer Day"
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

from: Poem Hunter

I

The dawn laughs out on orient hills
And dances with the diamond rills;
The ambrosial wind but faintly stirs
The silken, beaded gossamers;
In the wide valleys, lone and fair,
Lyrics are piped from limpid air,
And, far above, the pine trees free
Voice ancient lore of sky and sea.
Come, let us fill our hearts straightway
With hope and courage of the day.

II

Noon, hiving sweets of sun and flower,
Has fallen on dreams in wayside bower,
Where bees hold honeyed fellowship
With the ripe blossom of her lip;
All silent are her poppied vales
And all her long Arcadian dales,
Where idleness is gathered up
A magic draught in summer's cup.
Come, let us give ourselves to dreams
By lisping margins of her streams.

III

Adown the golden sunset way
The evening comes in wimple gray;
By burnished shore and silver lake
Cool winds of ministration wake;
O'er occidental meadows far
There shines the light of moon and star,
And sweet, low-tinkling music rings
About the lips of haunted springs.
In quietude of earth and air
'Tis meet we yield our souls to prayer.

PLEASE NOTE: Messages left here must pertain ONLY to memorials or provide an update on your status as a FindAGrave friend/follower/member. Do not leave messages about Ancestry, your DNA results or any family tree research. Those must go to the email address I provide if you cannot locate me at Ancestry. If you have a family tree at Ancestry, please send me an invite and contact me through Ancestry if you're a member. I will not respond to any Ancestry messages left here. You must be willing to provide your own email from your own email address for anything regarding Ancestry.

SEASON GREETINGS
Summertime is here. Let us regal in the season of golden light and ripening grains and fruits. The harvest will be bountiful if we still tend our gardens.

"A Summer Day"
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

from: Poem Hunter

I

The dawn laughs out on orient hills
And dances with the diamond rills;
The ambrosial wind but faintly stirs
The silken, beaded gossamers;
In the wide valleys, lone and fair,
Lyrics are piped from limpid air,
And, far above, the pine trees free
Voice ancient lore of sky and sea.
Come, let us fill our hearts straightway
With hope and courage of the day.

II

Noon, hiving sweets of sun and flower,
Has fallen on dreams in wayside bower,
Where bees hold honeyed fellowship
With the ripe blossom of her lip;
All silent are her poppied vales
And all her long Arcadian dales,
Where idleness is gathered up
A magic draught in summer's cup.
Come, let us give ourselves to dreams
By lisping margins of her streams.

III

Adown the golden sunset way
The evening comes in wimple gray;
By burnished shore and silver lake
Cool winds of ministration wake;
O'er occidental meadows far
There shines the light of moon and star,
And sweet, low-tinkling music rings
About the lips of haunted springs.
In quietude of earth and air
'Tis meet we yield our souls to prayer.