So, all the eve, the gathering gloom

Speaks with its voices low;

Hearts unto hearts, in bits of bloom,

On summer evenings flow.

—Willis Edwin Hurd.

CHERRIES.
(Prunus cerasus).
⅔ Life-size.

THE CHERRY.
(Prunus cerasus L.)

Sauerkirsche, Weichsalkirsche, G. Ceriesier, Griottier, Fr.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below