Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="WHEN_JUNE_COMES" id="WHEN_JUNE_COMES"></SPAN>When June Comes</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">W</span>HEN June comes back again I’ll sit<br/></span> <span class="ih">Away back from the road and dip<br/></span> <span class="i0">My face and arms in clover blooms,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And drink my fill of their perfumes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And steep myself in one great gleam<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of sunlight, and I’ll dream,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And dream,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And dream.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I’ll lean back in the grass and sigh<br/></span> <span class="i0">And look love at the blue, blue sky.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Until my senses reel and reel,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Like elm tree branches and a feel&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of drowsiness oozes between,<br/></span> <span class="i0">My eyelids, while I dream,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And dream,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And dream.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">A lethargy binds tongue and lips,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And creeps down to my fingertips.<br/></span> <span class="i2">Troubles, cares and everything,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Float out past my remembering.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</SPAN></span><br/></span> <span class="i0">And all the world is one great beam<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of gladness, while I dream,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And dream,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And dream.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />