Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SUMMER SONG, by EDWARD HEBENTON


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First Line: Oh, come, my love, the woods are green
Last Line: With their sweet notes are ringing.
Subject(s): Summer


OH, come, my love, the woods are green,
The wild birds warble free,
The daisies deck the fairy scene,
The lambs skip o'er the lea;
Then come, my love, from city dust,
And smoke, and swelt'ring weather --
Come from the seat of Mammon's lust,
And rove among the heather.

Adown the glen the burnie rins
With murmur soft and low,
The yellow bloom is on the whins,
The birks their tassels show;
Then come, my love, let these beguile
To go with me a-roaming,
Where Nature basks in beauty's smile,
From summer morn till gloaming.

Come while the fields are fair, my love,
With sweetly-scented clover,
While in the woods the cushat-dove
Coos soft 'neath leafy cover;
For rural scenes are fair, my love,
When blythe the birds are singing,
And all the echoes of the grove
With their sweet notes are ringing.





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