In Summer.

Oh, summer has clothed the earth

In a cloak from the loom of the sun!

And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue,

And a belt where the rivers run.

 

And now for the kiss of the wind,

And the touch of the air's soft hands,

With the rest from strife and the heat of life,

With the freedom of lakes and lands.

(Excerpt from In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1899)

Summer, yay.

Have a lovely day.