Summer Romance

 

Summer Romance

 

At summer’s dawn I see the sun arise,

To warm the earth and kiss her dampened plane,

With yawning rays that tease and linger there,

And promise tender love to gain their end.

 

The earth aroused, responds to the sun’s heat,

And gives her swain the richness of her soul.

She buds and blooms in trusting innocence,

Within his flaming arms matures,

And bursts to shameless fruitfulness.

 

When comely face begins to fade with age,

The first blush gone, her lushness brown and spent,

The fiery cad, with faithless disregard,

Abandons her to wither and to die,

And wanders far to feed his greedy eye

Upon some other budding summer land.