O Summertime!

Knaresborough England, Sherry Lynn

O Summertime, with warm embrace,
  Enchanted time with leafy lace,
Whose squeeze of heat makes days grow long,
  Whose nights are warm and filled with song,
Yes, your embrace which long held sway,
  Infused each bloom and flow'ry spray,
Has now grown weak and trending frail;
  Your short'ning days with colors pale.
You grasp at time but days rush past,
  Leaves tired of life soon brown are massed.
Yet vainly you would try to stall,
  The coming footsteps of the Fall
Or Autumn with her captive hue—
  When with one blow your works shall strew.
O Summer, you must give way soon,
  And Nature shall to Fall atune!

- D. Benning

Tree Lover's Collection, Sherry Lynn