Here is a sumer day poem sung by an Elizabethan: A SUMER DAY By Alexander Hune. (Songs of Three Centuries, page 10) "The time so tranquil is and clear, All trees and simples, great and small, Than they were painted on a wall, The ships becalmed upon the seas, O sure it were a seemly thing, All laborers draw home at even, ་ Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, To the Victorian Summer brings the eternal note of sadness in." SUMTER DAYS. By Mathen Marks Call. (Vic. An. page 152) "In summer, when the days were long, We walked, two friends, in field and wood; In summer, when the days were long. In summer, when the days are long, I see her not, but that old song See also "HAS SUITER COME WITHOUT THE ROSE?" O'Shaughnessy. by Arthur The Elizabethans loved the summer and they could not bear to give it up. It was like their life intensely bright, and and glowing with warmth of love and passion. FADING SUMER By Thomas Nashe (Schelling page 51). "Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore, All good things vanish less than in a day, Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, |