100. Summer Flower

100. Summer Flower




I was born on this day,

Quarter century old,

Time's scythe takes hold

Around years, months on 5th May,

And the hot summer pay

For the cake gold,

Lies which in barn to be sold,

While sandy swirls make hay.



Thank thee O summer,

Only thou show passion for the child;

Arriving like the flower late,

Becomes who then a dreamer,—

Summer flower; without singlest trace wild,

Oh! The flower with unflowery fate.





101. Night Song



O Cuckoo, thrown destitute,

Singst thou now nigritude :

The beautiful rhymed song,—

For whom? Wait who hung

In adopted nest and parents deceived;

Mistook as nestlings conceived.

O singer of conceited bravery,

On this night dreary,

Drive they competers out

To eat whole food; become stout.



O foolish songy mother,

I blame thee not; migratory, wind flown,

Spring abandoned thou either,

Summer gusts left thee alone,

Now, like nightingale thou singst

A long song for night :

Feel I thy Florence nurst;

The rhymed heal over distruct,—

A day's war we swampt,

Thou now wander with lyrical lamp.



How unmotherly thou art!

Not to pour ditty whole

Upon thy eggs waiting hatch,

Like black Goddess, thou dart

The blackness as mother sole,

Lulling lolly thine match,

The life song over night's camp,

Thou keep life's lamp

Burning with thy awake,

Please, keep singing for our stake.