Malgré Alfred Tennyson.

Mortimer Collins.

A SUMMER SONG

SUMMER is sweet, ay! summer is sweet,—

Minna mine with the brown, brown eyes:

Red are the roses under his feet,

Clear the blue of his windless skies.

Pleasant it is in a boat to glide

On a river whose ripples to ocean haste,

With indolent fingers fretting the tide,