Summer-lovers Prayer

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
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 Summer Afternoon, 

Summer Afternoon.

To me those have always been 

the two most beautiful words 

in the English Language

Henry James~

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
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Lord, let me live to touch and taste

Each day with purpose and intent

The clock tick-tocks with subtle haste

Soon favourite summer-days are spent

Lord, let me not look back and cry

Alas, alack and then lament

With wishful woulda-shoulda sigh  

These favourite summer days now spent

Lord, let me have and hold, for oh

We know how swift Time folds its tent

And insists on our letting go

Of favourite summer days soon spent

© Janet Martin