Summer Evening in A Garden

The air, heavy with the scent of honeysuckle,

Gives off that pricking which accompanies

An evening in summer, warm

And resplendent with hay fever.

Wind, rattling the clamouring chimes,

Makes windmills spin and knock against

The purple heads of flowers serenely set

Below a backdrop of a wall of roses.

A cat, scared by far-off sounds

Chases after fish in a trickling pond.

Drinking from a feature it is well,

Happy and content.

Summer, sitting in a garden after rain,

Is of the best times.