Versos English Edwin Markham Midsummer Noon

English poem

Midsummer Noon

by (1852–1940)

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Yonder a workman, under the cool bridge, Resting at mid-day, watches the glancing midge, While twinkling lights and murmurs of the stream Pass into the dim fabric of his dream. The misty hollows and the drowsy ridge— How like an airy fantasy they seem.