<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="detail-hd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="hdg hdg_1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.231;">Midsummer</span><h2 class="isVisuallyHidden" style="margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; position: absolute; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" class="">Related Poem Content Details</font></h2></div><div class="detail-byline" style="margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="detail-bd" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="user-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="user-content-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="poem" data-view="ContentView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">The adolescent night, breath of the town, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Porchswings and whispers, maple leaves unseen <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Deploying moonlight quieter than a man dead <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">After the locust’s song. These homes were mine <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">And are not now forever, these on the steps <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Children I think removed to many places, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Lost among hushed years, and so strangely known. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">This business is well ended. If in the dark <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">The firefly made his gleam and sank therefrom, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Yet someone’s hand would have him, the wet grass <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Bed him no more. From corners of the lawn <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">The dusk-white dresses flutter and are past. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Before our bed time there were things to say, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Remembering tree-bark, crickets, and the first star… <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">After, and as the sullenness of time <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Went on from summer, here in a land alien <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Made I my perfect fears and flower of thought: <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Sleep being no longer swift in the arms of pain, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Revisitations are convenient with a cough, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">And there is something I would say again <br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">If I had not forever, if there were time.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Robert Fitzgerald</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>