One Day In Summer

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Title:     One Day In Summer
Author: David Morton [More Titles by Morton]

This singing Summertime has never done
With afternoons all gold and dust and fire,
And windy trees blown silver in the sun,
The lights of earth, her musics and desire;--
But day by day, and hour by lighted hour,
Something beyond the summer earth and sky,
Burns through this passion of a world in flower,--
Some ghostly sense of lovers thronging by.

And I have thought, upon this windy hill,
Where bends and sways the long, dream-troubled grass,
That I may know the heart-beats, tender still,
Of gone, forgotten lovers where they pass,--
Their love, too long for one brief life to hold,
Beating and burning through this dust and gold.

[The end]
David Morton's poem: One Day In Summer

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