<h2><SPAN name="page90"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>SUMMER DREAMS</h2>
<p class="poetry">When the Summer sun is shining,<br/>
And the green things push and grow,<br/>
Oft my heart runs over measure,<br/>
With its flowing fount of pleasure,<br/>
As I feel the sea winds blow;<br/>
Ah, then life is good, I know.</p>
<p class="poetry">And I think of sweet birds building,<br/>
And of children fair and free;<br/>
And of glowing sun-kissed meadows,<br/>
And of tender twilight shadows,<br/>
And of boats upon the sea.<br/>
Oh, then life seems good to me!</p>
<p class="poetry">Then unbidden and unwanted,<br/>
Come the darker, sadder sights;<br/>
City shop and stifling alley,<br/>
Where misfortune’s children rally;<br/>
And the hot crime-breeding nights,<br/>
And the dearth of God’s delights.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page91"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
91</span>And I think of narrow prisons<br/>
Where unhappy songbirds dwell,<br/>
And of cruel pens and cages<br/>
Where some captured wild thing rages<br/>
Like a madman in his cell,<br/>
In the Zoo, the wild beasts’ hell.</p>
<p class="poetry">And I long to lift the burden<br/>
Of man’s selfishness and sin;<br/>
And to open wide earth’s treasures<br/>
Of God’s storehouse, full of pleasures,<br/>
For my dumb and human kin,<br/>
And to ask the whole world in.</p>
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