Here shall my heart find its haven of calm

 It's the first really blazing hot sunny June day, and the garden is glowing.

I love this poem:

June Sunset

Sarojini Naidu - 1879-1949

 

Here shall my heart find its haven of calm,

By rush-fringed rivers and rain-fed streams

That glimmer thro' meadows of lily and palm.

Here shall my soul find its true repose

Under a sunset sky of dreams

Diaphanous, amber and rose.

The air is aglow with the glint and whirl

Of swift wild wings in their homeward flight,

Sapphire, emerald, topaz, and pearl.

Afloat in the evening light.

 

A brown quail cries from the tamarisk bushes,

A bulbul calls from the cassia-plume,

And thro' the wet earth the gentian pushes

Her spikes of silvery bloom.

Where'er the foot of the bright shower passes

Fragrant and fresh delights unfold;

The wild fawns feed on the scented grasses,

Wild bees on the cactus-gold.

 

An ox-cart stumbles upon the rocks,

And a wistful music pursues the breeze

From a shepherd's pipe as he gathers his flocks

Under the pipal-trees.

And a young Banjara driving her cattle

Lifts up her voice as she glitters by

In an ancient ballad of love and battle

Set to the beat of a mystic tune,

And the faint stars gleam in the eastern sky

To herald a rising moon.

 

art by Valerie Greeley

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