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A SUMMER NIGHT'S ENCHANTMENT by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: THE PERFUME OF THE GARDEN BLOWS
Last Line: WITH JOY AROUND US EVERYWHERE.
Subject(s): SUMMER;
THE perfume of the garden blows
Fill'd full with scent of musk and rose;
The little bay beneath us here
Is like a woman's jeweled hair,
Studded with sparkling shafts of light
Reflected from the diamond'd height.
And somewhere in the grove is heard
The passion of some love-lorn bird;
And you, my dear, beside me here
With joy around us everywhere.



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