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 Did he so often lodge in open field,
 In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,
  To conquer read more 
 Did he so often lodge in open field,
 In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,
  To conquer France, his true inheritance? 
 Here is the ghost
 Of a summer that lived for us,
  Here is a promise
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 Here is the ghost
 Of a summer that lived for us,
  Here is a promise
   Of summer to be. 
 In lang, lang days o' simmer,
 When the clear and cloudless sky
  Refuses ae weep drap o' read more 
 In lang, lang days o' simmer,
 When the clear and cloudless sky
  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
   To Nature parched and dry,
    The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
     Gars verdue, spring anew,
      An' ilka blade o' grass
       Keps its ain drap o' dew. 
 Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with 
its usual severity.  
 Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with 
its usual severity. 
 Very hot and still the air was,
 Very smooth the gliding river,
  Motionless the sleeping shadows.  
 Very hot and still the air was,
 Very smooth the gliding river,
  Motionless the sleeping shadows. 
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.
 Now is the winter of our discontent
 Made glorious summer by this son of York;
  And all read more 
 Now is the winter of our discontent
 Made glorious summer by this son of York;
  And all the clouds that lowered upon our house
   In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 
 O summer day beside the joyous sea!
 O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of read more 
 O summer day beside the joyous sea!
 O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
   Forever and forever shalt thou be
    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
     To some the landmark of a new domain.