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All in the time when Earth did most deplore / The cold, ungracious aspect of young May, / Sweet Summer came, and bade him smile once more; / She wove bright garlands, and in winsome play / She bound him willing captive. Day by day / She found new wiles wherewith his heart to please; / Or bright the sun, or if the skies were gray, / They laughed together, under spreading trees, / By running brooks, or on the sandy shores of seas.
They were but comrades. To that radiant maid / No serious word he spake; no lovers' plea. / Like careless children, glad and unafraid, / They sported in their opulence of glee. / Her shining tresses floated wild and free; / In simple lines her emerald garments hung; / She was both good to hear, and fair to see; / And when she laughed, then Earth laughed too, and flung / His cares behind him, and grew radiant and young.