Saturday Poetry Corner: Summer

 

 

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
(2 Corinthians 4:18)

 

Sunflowers 
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 The long, long days of summer,

The sunny days are here;

The ripening grain is bending,

The air is soft and clear.

 O God, Thy tender mercies

Like evening dews descend;

Thou givest rain and sunshine,

On Thee our hopes depend. 

The glowing heat at noontide,

The hush of evening's calm,

Remind us of Thy presence,

To Thee we raise our psalm.

In life's fair summer weather,

Oh, may we look to Thee;

And when the storms o'ertake us,

Our refuge Thou shalt be.

"Summer"
(1899)
Julia Harriette Johnson 
(1849-1919)
American hymn writer