SUMMER SON
ORN in a blessing, my bouncing boy, On a long, dear, lingering she and I, Dance your ding-dong round the day, As young as, the sun and two years high, His hop is a reason, his skip a rhyme For one and all old summertime. Nose-high to the cocksfoot heads, Rolling in the seeding rye, He butrows in a haunt of grass And clouds of pollen starch his sky; Stems are towers where locusts chime, ‘The shivery-grass is the summertime, Nesting in the high-born hedge, A breath of blossom in his thirsty eye, Unlined by life, not stooped with desire, But drunk with the wine of never why, A star in the milky way he climbs In the lacebark of his summer times. His eat a shell that hears the sea’s Deep choirs of love sing live and die; : \ His voice more sweet than the milk of waves Hints of my mortality, Yet in his splash, in a sense sublime,
I know the sex of the summertime.
Keith
Sinclair
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 22
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171SUMMER SON New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 22
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