If other flowers adorn the house and the
splendour of the countryside, the pure ponds
shine still in the grass with the great eyes of
water of their mobile face.
Who can say from what far-off and unknown
distances so many new birds have come with sun on
their wings?
In the garden, April has given way to July, and
the blue tints to the great carnation tints;
space is warm and the wind frail; a thousand
insects glisten joyously in the air; and summer
passes in her robe of diamonds and sparks.