July
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
In July
The cuckoo has an altered cry,
The peaches on the orchard wall
Glow as the roses did in June.
The orchard shadow's green and boon,
And gold, not silver, is the moon.
The cuckoo has another call
In July.
As one great sapphire glows the sky
Above the fields of yellowing grain,
Sunburnt and shrunk the blossomed elder
Stands in the noon that once beheld her
Whiter than snowballs of the guelder.
Fierce is the sun, his kisses stain
In July.
The rose remembers she must die
Before the Swallows quit the eaves;
And that she may not be forgot
When winds are cold that now blow hot,
She sheds her sweets and grudges not
The falling of her velvet leaves
In July.
Well were it, love, that you and I
Should take example by the rose;
Sweet all her blossom-time, and sweet
When her heart opens to the fleet
June rain, and last, beneath our feet,
Sweet to the last, as when she glows
In July.
Nora Hopper Chesson's July
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