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A Summer Mood
By Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)
From ‘Prairie Songs’
O
To be one with the wind and the stream!
With never a care while the waters run,
With never a thought in my dream.
To be part of the robin’s lilting call
And part of the bobolink’s rhyme.
Lying close to the shy thrush singing alone,
And lapped in the cricket’s chime!
With the lust and the glory of man
Lost in the circuit of springtime suns—
Submissive as earth and part of her plan;
To lie as the snake lies, content in the grass!
To drift as the clouds drift, effortless, free,
Glad of the power that drives them on,
With never a question of wind or sea.