So many times over comes summer again.

"Hearken, O guest, if ye be awake,"

What healing in summer if winter be vain?

"Sure ye champions of the south

Speak many things from a silent mouth.

And thine, meseems, last night did pray

That ye might well be wed to-day.

The year's ingathering feast it is,

A goodly day to give thee bliss.

Come hither, daughter, fine and fair,