The Wonderful World of June

A bike ride in the countryside in June is an encouraging happening. I felt as a child in Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, The Swing:

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside.
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown–
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

The Wind

THE WIND

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies’ skirts across the grass–
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all—
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Jeg elsker blæsevejr, når skyerne danser over himlen, og skyggerne flygter hen over markerne. Det var sådan en dag min bror og jeg satte vores hjemmelavede drage op på marken bag vores hus.

Kornet var modent, men vi tænkte ikke på de ‘sprøjtespor’ vi lavede med vores små fødder. Det der var værre, var min brors idé om at min lille bamse skulle med op og flyve. Jeg lod mig hurtigt overtale, og bamse fløj til vejrs og svævede i svimlende højde hen over marker og huse.

De kraftige vindstød og de hurtige ryg i forankringen fik desværre lille Plys til at falde ned i det gyldne korn.
Det var umuligt at finde den eventyrlystne bamse i kornet, og jeg måtte grædefærdig acceptere tabet af min ven.

Rigtig god Stor Bededag og 1. Maj ❤