A III THE FLOWERS LL the names I know from nurse : Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames These must all be fairy names ! Tiny woods below whose boughs Fair are grown-up people's trees, G IV SUMMER SUN REAT is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven without repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than rain he showers his rays. Though closer still the blinds we pull Yet he will find a chink or two To slip his golden fingers through. The dusty attic spider-clad He, through the keyhole, maketh glad ; Meantime his golden face around G Above the hills, along the blue, V THE DUMB SOLDIER HEN the grass was closely mown, WH Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Under grass alone he lies, When the grass is ripe like grain, Then my hole shall reappear. |