Summer Song

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I WAS wakened from my slumber, by the robins' sweetest
      song--
So I joined in a chorus, and in person came along
To the hills and vales which Nature had arranged in marked
     degree
For admirers of her beauty--lovers all, with you and me.

Little pearls were on the grass-blades; just distilled from
     heaven's spring
And the flower-cups were beaming with the nectar, and they
     bring
Sweetest drafts, for our refreshing, in the summer-time of
     youth,
When our cheeks are kissed with breezes incense-laden,
     sweet in truth.

When the sun had climbed the mountain, took its beaming
     peep at me
Seeming just beyond the treetops, yet perhaps beyond the
     sea---
Still the beam with threads of beauty, from the orb so far
     away
Let the warmth of summer sunshine, as the radium of life's
     day.
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