Summer Sun

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 to 1894

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