Midsummer

D. Knaggs

I see the millet combing gold

From summer sun,

In hussar caps, all day;

And brown quails run

Far down the dusty way,

Fly up and whistle from the wold;

Sweet delusions on the mountains,

Of hounds in chase,

Beguiling every care

Of life apace,

Though only fevered air

That trembles, and dies in mounting.