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SUMMER MURMURS

Breeze that art coming
Over the sea,
Bee that art humming
Over the lea,
What do ye murmur, murmur to me?
“Ripe are the grasses
Summer's wing passes;
Warm is the sun;
Yet, oh remember
Frost and December,
Leaves that are fallen, leaves that are dun.”
E.