SUMMER SKIES

SUMMER SKIES

There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right handBearing the wreath of beauty silently to crown the earth.And there comes the evening over the lonely meadowsDeserted by herds, through trackless pathsCarrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcherFrom the Western ocean of rest.

There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right handBearing the wreath of beauty silently to crown the earth.And there comes the evening over the lonely meadowsDeserted by herds, through trackless pathsCarrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcherFrom the Western ocean of rest.

There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right handBearing the wreath of beauty silently to crown the earth.And there comes the evening over the lonely meadowsDeserted by herds, through trackless pathsCarrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcherFrom the Western ocean of rest.

There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right hand

Bearing the wreath of beauty silently to crown the earth.

And there comes the evening over the lonely meadows

Deserted by herds, through trackless paths

Carrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcher

From the Western ocean of rest.

Rabindranath Tagore.

Day!Faster and more fast,O'er night's brim day boils at last;Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brimWhere spurting and suppressed it lay;For not a froth-flake touched the rimOf yonder gap in the solid grayOf the eastern cloud, an hour away;But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,Rose, reddened, and its seething breastFlickered in bounds, grew gold, thenOverflowed the world.

Day!Faster and more fast,O'er night's brim day boils at last;Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brimWhere spurting and suppressed it lay;For not a froth-flake touched the rimOf yonder gap in the solid grayOf the eastern cloud, an hour away;But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,Rose, reddened, and its seething breastFlickered in bounds, grew gold, thenOverflowed the world.

Day!Faster and more fast,O'er night's brim day boils at last;Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brimWhere spurting and suppressed it lay;For not a froth-flake touched the rimOf yonder gap in the solid grayOf the eastern cloud, an hour away;But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,Rose, reddened, and its seething breastFlickered in bounds, grew gold, thenOverflowed the world.

Day!

Faster and more fast,

O'er night's brim day boils at last;

Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim

Where spurting and suppressed it lay;

For not a froth-flake touched the rim

Of yonder gap in the solid gray

Of the eastern cloud, an hour away;

But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,

Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,

Rose, reddened, and its seething breast

Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then

Overflowed the world.

Robert Browning.


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