<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Indian Summer</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:18%"><em>This is the sign!</em></p><p class="line">This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline,</p><p class="line">This sun a golden sea on hill and plain, --</p><p class="line">That God forgets not, that He walks with men.</p><p class="line">His smile is on the mountain and the pool</p><p class="line">And all the fairy lakes are beautiful.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:18%"><em>This is the word!</em></p><p class="line">That makes a thing of flame the water-bird.</p><p class="line">This mercy of His fulfilled in the magical</p><p class="line">Clear glow of skies from dawn to evenfall,</p><p class="line">Telling His Hand is over us, that we</p><p class="line">Are not delivered to the insatiable sea.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:18%"><em>This is the pledge!</em></p><p class="line">The promise writ in gold to the water's edge:</p><p class="line">His bow's in Heaven and the great floods are over.</p><p class="line">Oh, broken hearts, lift up! The Immortal Lover</p><p class="line">Embraces, comforts with the enlivening sun,</p><p class="line">The sun He bids stand still till the day is won.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Katharine Tynan.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> From The Flower of Youth. <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.) </p></body></html> · Great War