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THE SUMMER WIND by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: THE BUGLING OF THE SUMMER WIND
Last Line: AND RIDETH ON A CLOUD!
Subject(s): SUMMER; WIND;

The bugling of the summer wind
Is sweet upon the hill:
I love to hear its eddies
The heather-crannies fill.

It plays upon the bracken
A blithe fanfarronade:
And thro' the moss-cups whistleth
"The Fairy Raid."

It leaps from birch to rowan,
And laugheth long and loud,
Then with a spring is vanished,
And rideth on a cloud!



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