A Day and a Night In June

Rolling pastures of green meadows rise to greet the horizon meeting a deep blue sky, Beautiful old Perennial Clovers fill the glades and valleys with sweetness and beauty, Yellow Goat’s Beard, Dog Daisies with Chervil, shelter under hedgerows and Oak trees, A Yellow Rattle and the Lotus meet the Quake-grass and have done since I was a boy. As I get older and become friends of Fescues, the Rough Cocks foot is still my dream, And warm days of June are brilliant and beautiful the nights very calm soft and warm, Where moonbeams and the evening stars twinkle in soft silver the background a blue hue, Trees silhouetted against the starry night sky like a painting on canvas immortalized. What could match the clear beauty of a June sky as bird’s soar across turquoise day, Wild oats and Darnell's by waysides, Red Pensile panicles in the light winds that blow, Each a friend with the Fox tail and Timothy they all sway in the same breeze dancing, Wrapped in light air-grass and the Purple Burnett all are loved in a summer’s meadow. The corn grows tall in the golden sea it has waves when the wind strokes the stems, Walk in a dreamland of wonder over fields and along the footpaths since time began, The rye as tall as your head and the wheat beginnings to shoot away from the husks, Then the wild flowers among these crops are a beauty on a wonderful sun shiny day.