StoryTitle("caps", "A~Summer~Day") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Perfect Light, which shaid away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The darkness from the light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And set a ruler o'er the day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another o'er the night—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy glory, when the day forth flies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "More vively doth appear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than at mid day unto our eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The shining sun is clear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shadow of the earth anon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Removes and drawis by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While in the East, when it is gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Appears a clearer sky.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which soon perceive the little larks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The lapwing and the snipe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tune their songs, like Nature's clerks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er meadow, muir, and stripe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our hemisphere is polisht clean,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And lighten'd more and more,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While everything is clearly seen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which seemit dim before:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Except the glistering astres bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which all the night were clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Offuskit with a greater light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No longer do appear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The golden globe incontinent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sets up his shining head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And o'er the earth and firmament", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Displays his beams abread.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For joy the birds with boulden throats", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Against his visage sheen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take up their kindly musick notes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In woods and gardens green.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dew upon the tender crops,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like pearlis white and round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or like to melted silver drops,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Refreshis all the ground.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The misty reek, the clouds of rain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From tops of mountains skails,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clear are the highest hills and plain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The vapours take the vales.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ample heaven of fabrick sure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In cleanness does surpass", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The crystal and the silver pure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or clearest polisht glass.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The time so tranquil is and still", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That nowhere shall ye find,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Save on a high and barren hill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An air of peeping wind.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All trees and simples, great and small,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That balmy leaf do bear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than they were painted on a wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No more they move or steir.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calm is the deep and purple sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yea, smoother than the sand;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waves that weltering wont to be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are stable like the land.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So silent is the cessile air", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That every cry and call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hills and dales and forest fair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Again repeats them all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flourishes and fragrant flowers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through Phoebus' fostering heat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Refresht with dew and silver showers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cast up an odour sweet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cloggit busy humming bees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That never think to drone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On flowers and flourishes of trees", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Collect their liquor brown.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Sun, most like a speedy post", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With ardent course ascends;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The beauty of the heavenly host", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Up to our zenith tends.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The burning beams down from his face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So fervently can beat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That man and beast now seek a place", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To save them from the heat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The herds beneath some leafy tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amidst the flowers they lie;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stable ships upon the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tend up their sails to dry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With gilded eyes and open wings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The cock his courage shows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With claps of joy his breast he dings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And twenty times he crows.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dove with whistling wings so blue", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The winds can fast collect;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her purple pens turn many a hue", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Against the sun direct.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now noon is went; gone is midday,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The heat doth slake at last;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sun descends down West away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For three of clock is past.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rayons of the sun we see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Diminish in their strength;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shade of every tower and tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Extendit is in length.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great is the calm, for everywhere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wind is setting down;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The reek throws right up in the air", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From every tower and town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The gloming comes; the day is spent;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sun goes out of sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And painted is the occident", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With purple sanguine bright.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our west horizon circular", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From time the sun be set", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is all with rubies, as it were,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or roses red o'erfret.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What pleasure were to walk and see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Endlong a river clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The perfect form of every tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Within the deep appear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O then it were a seemly thing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While all is still and calm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The praise of God to play and sing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With cornet and with shalm!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All labourers draw home at even,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And can to others say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which sent this summer day.", "") ?>
Poet("Alexander Hume", "1560-1609") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>