Sun's ablaze
A summer's day
Rare to this isle
Of skies so often grey

To despairs doom
And sorrows decay
All noise lost among the child's play
And bloom of flowers
In garden and in vase

Heat to ignite the spirit
In smile and joy aflame
Beyond walls of duty
Roaming in rockless mountains
And rainless plains
Hymn and hum of bird and bee
The only strains

Warm touch, cool touch
Sun and air
The skin share
Idle cat in a flower bed snared
Nature sits in God's chair

But the day flees
The fire dims and dies
Bringing sweet yawns of labour
And a desire to retire
Sleeping to awake dream
The minds empire

But dream can raise the soul no higher
Than days when world and soul find harmony entire
And all my dreams I would forsake
To in any moment of those partake