David Macbeth Moir - Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; T

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.

- David Macbeth Moir

source: David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

topic: Summer, Song, Blessed, Minnows, Azure, Halcyon Days, Greening