Thursday 11 September 2014

Day 784: Indian Summer Days


We're having a lovely end-of-summer encore of sun here in Ireland at the moment. We know it won't last, but it's delightful while it does. A last hurrah of summer yes, a chance to say a proper farewell.
 


130 (Indian Summer) - Emily Dickinson

These are the days when Birds come back
A very few—a Bird or two
To take a backward look

These are the days when skies resume
The old—old sophistries of June
A blue and gold mistake

Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief

Till ranks of seeds their witness bear
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf

Oh Sacrament of summer days
Oh Last Communion in the Haze
Permit a child to join

Thy sacred emblems to partake
They consecrated bread to take
And thine immortal wine!

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