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Sagas
of Vaster Britain: Poems of the Race, the Empire and
the Divinity of Man
by
William Wilfred Campbell
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THE
MONTH OF RIPENESS
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THOU
languid August noon,
When all the slopes are
sunny;
When with jocund dreamy tune,
The bees are in the honey;
When with purple flowers
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Aflaming
in the sun,
The drowsy hours
Thread one by one
The
golden pleasaunces.
Then is the heart’s musing-time;—
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Then,
of all the seasons
Old Earth, for inward rhyme,
Is full of golden reasons;
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Then the ripening gourd,
The sun-kissed garden wall,
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The
purpling hoard,
The flocks that call
Adown
the distances.
Forego the saddening tear,
Thou month without alloy;
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To younger
seasons of the year
Resign the flag of joy.
But thou, be what thou art,
Full brooding to the brim
Of dreams apart
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And
purlieus dim
Of
leafy silences.
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