Eleanor L. Skinner

Summer

Hang out your loveliest star, O Night!

O Night!

Your richest rose, O Dawn!

To greet sweet Summer, her who clothed in

Light

Leads Earth's best hours on.

Hark! how the wild birds of the woods

Throat it within the dewy solitudes;

The brook sings low and soft,

The trees make song,

As from her heaven aloft

Comes blue-eyed Summer like a girl along.

Madison Cawein.