Summer Sun
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 to 1894
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Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through ______ heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing ______
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though ______ still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady ______ cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
______ slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic, spider-clad,
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken ______ of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his ______ face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
______ sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's ______ nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the ______ air with footing true,
To please the child, to ______ the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.