'Twas midsummer; The warm earth teemed with flowers; the kingcups gold, The perfumed clover, 'mid the crested grass; The plantains rearing high their flowery crowns Above the daisied coverts; overhead, The hawthorns, white and rosy, bent with bloom, The broad-fanned chestnuts spiked with frequent flowers, And white gold-hearted lilies on the stream.
