A SONG OF SUMMER DAYS
Reading edition
As pearls slip off a silken string and fall into the sea, These rounded summer days fall back into eternity.
Into the deep from whence they came; into the mystery— At set of sun each one slips back as pearls into the sea.
They are so sweet—so warm and sweet—Love fain would hold them fast: He weeps when through his finger tips they slip away at last.