At other times, she is represented surrounded by the flowers which blossom
latest, mingled with the delicious fruits which are the offspring of the
summer season.
"Come away! the sunny hours
Woo thee far to founts and bowers!
O'er the very waters now,
In their play,
Flowers are shedding beauty's glow--
Come away!
Where the lily's tender gleam
Quivers on the glancing stream--
Come away!
All the air is filled with sound,
Soft, and sultry, and profound;
Murmurs through the shadowy grass
Lightly stray;
Faint winds whisper as they pass--
Come away;
Where the bee's deep music swells
From the trembling fox-glove bells--
Come away!
In the skies the sapphire blue
Now hath won its richest hue;
In the woods the breath of song
Night and day
Floats with leafy scents along--
Where the boughs with dewy gloom
Come away!
Darken each thick bed of bloom
Come away!
In the deep heart of the rose
Now the crimson love-hue glows;
Now the glow-worm's lamp by night
Sheds a ray,
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Dreamy, starry, freely bright--
Come away!
Where the fairy cup-moss lies,
With the wild-wood strawberries,
Come away!
Now each tree by summer crowned,
Sheds its own night twilight round;
Glancing there from sun to shade,
Bright wings play;
Here the deer its couch hath made--
Come away!
Where the smooth leaves of the lime
Glisten in the honey time,
Come away--away!