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MY SUMMER by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

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First Line: DO YOU THINK THE SUMMER WILL EVER COME
Last Line: IN THE SUN OF MY LOVE FROM MORN TILL NIGHT?
Subject(s): SUMMER;
DO you think the summer will ever come,
With white of lily and flush of rose, --
With the warm, bright days of joy and June,
So long you dream they will never close?

Will the birds, atilt on the bending boughs,
Sing out their hearts in a mad delight;
And the golden butterflies, sun-suffused,
Shimmer and shine from morn till night?

Do you think my summer will ever come,
With brow of lily and cheek of rose?
Shall I hold her fast, -- my Joy, my June, --
And dream that my day will never close?

Will she mock the birds on the bending boughs
(For her voice is music, -- my heart's delight),
Or be content, like the butterflies,
In the sun of my love from morn till night?





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