Wednesday Vignette - Silent Noon

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Silent Noon
      -Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, -
   The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
    Your eyes smile peace.  The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
    Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge
    Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

Deep in the sun-search growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:-
    so this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
    When twofold silence was the song of love.

Isn't summer grand?