[Image: ‘Summer Parish’ by Carry Akroyd’http://www.carryakroyd.co.uk/
From: The Summer Canto: High Beech
[June? – mid-July]
Ballad
Summer morning is risen
& to even it wends
& still Im in prison
Without any friends
I had joys assurance
Though in bondage I lie—
I am still left in durance
Unwilling to sigh
Still the forest is round me
Where the trees bloom in green
As if chains ne'er had bound me
Or cares had ne'er been
Nature's love is eternal
In forest & plain
Her course is diurnal
To blossom again
For home & friends vanished
I have kindness not wrath
For in days care has banished
My heart possessed both
My hopes are all hopeless
My skys have no sun
Winter fell in youths mayday
& still freezes on
But Love like the seed is
In the heart of a flower
It will blossom with truth
In a prosperous hour
True love is eternal
For God is the giver
& love like the soul will
Endure—& forever
(lines 10 to 41)
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