| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 147. Summer |
| | | By Johannes Carl Andersen |
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| AND sleeps thy heart when flower and tree | |
| Adorn the summer stillness? | |
| And did young Spring pass over thee | |
| In chillness? | |
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| Their scent delights and pleases, | 5 |
| On petalled breezes blown, | |
| But in their beauty freezes | |
| Thine own. | |
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| The flower awakes, the tree is leafed, | |
| Yet love in thee is dumb,— | 10 |
| Flowers fall, fruits ripen, corn is sheafed, | |
| Ho! Winter’s cold will come. | |
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| When wakens some November morn | |
| Dew-soft, around thee brightly, | |
| And blossoms on the grey hawthorn | 15 |
| Lie whitely, | |
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| Come thou, thy bosom beating, | |
| And learn, through new-found bliss, | |
| No time so joyous, fleeting, | |
| As this. | 20 |
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| Come thou, with shadows in thine eyes, | |
| And singing in thy heart, | |
| And learn, ’mid trees, with flowers and skies, | |
| How young and dear thou art. | |
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