Summer Amusements


I love to hide me on a spot that lies 
In solitudes where footsteps find no track 
To make intrusions there to sympathize 
With nature often gazing on the rack 
That veils the blueness of the summer skies 
In rich varieties or o'er the grass 
Behold the spangled crowds of butterflies 
Flutter from flower to flower & things that pass 
In urgent travel by my still retreat
The bustling beetle tribes & up the stem 
Of bents see lady-cows with nimble feet 
Climb tall church-steeple heights or more to them
Till at its quaking top they take their seat
Which bows & off they fly fresh happiness to meet


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