On Summer's Eve

 The supper dishes waited while I joined in the fun. Oh, there is nothing as fair as a summer's eve sparkling with the laughter of a child. This Bubble solution needs to be mixed approx. 6 hrs. or let stand overnight before using. The recipe I used is a large batch! 2 cups Dawn dish-soap, I cup corn-syrup mixed with 12 cups hot water. The bubble-blowers: 2 drinking straws with a shoelace strung through them and knotted!

On summer’s eve the air is soft

With winnowing of haste; it’s hush

Painted in shadows by a brush

Toning the landscape from aloft

Child-laughter spangles on the breeze

In serenade of innocence

Before Time’s keen deliverance

Renders responsibilities

This prelude to quickened farewells

Bids us to linger in the gift

Of languid dusk where vespers drift

Across earth’s green and golden swells

Summer’s fortune spills to a hymn

Of daylight to twilight descent

The laden head of harvest bent

In worship as sun-splendors dim

Youth is exhumed in violet-musk

We join the frolic of a child

Before we are gently exiled

From garden air and lolling dusk

On summer’s eve the hour sprawls

Beneath the gloaming lullaby

Of luna moth and firefly

Of willow-sigh and zephyr-drawls

Soft summer eve’s serenity

Tugs us from duty’s tireless rod

To touch the finger-tips of God

As this day fades to memory

© Janet Martin

I LOVE this song for the summer! I crank it up because it is exactly how I feel:)