JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER

         

                To—

         
        There on the top of the down,
        The wild heather round me and over me June’s high blue,
        When I look’d at the bracken so bright and the heather so brown,
        I thought to myself I would offer this book to you,
        This, and my love together,
        To you that are seventy-seven,
        With a faith as clear as the heights of the June-blue heaven,
        And a fancy as summer-new
        As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather.