In the grey summer garden I shall find you
With day-break and the morning hills behind you.
There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;
And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.
Not from the past youll come, but from that deep
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:
And I shall know the sense of life re-born
From dreams into the mystery of morn
Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there
Till that calm song is done, at last well share
The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are
Joy in the world, and peace, and dawns one star.
Idyll
written bySiegfried Sassoon
© Siegfried Sassoon