It Shall Be, Then, Upon A Summer's Day

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Title:     It Shall Be, Then, Upon A Summer's Day
Author: Paul Verlaine [More Titles by Verlaine]

It shall be, then, upon a summer's day:
The sun, my joy's accomplice, bright shall shine,
And add, amid your silk and satin fine,
To your dear radiance still another ray;

The heavens, like a sumptuous canopy,
Shall shake out their blue folds to droop and trail
About our happy brows, that shall be pale
With so much gladness, such expectancy;

And when day closes, soft shall be the air
That in your snowy veils, caressing, plays,
And with soft-smiling eyes the stars shall gaze
Benignantly upon the wedded pair.

[The end]
Paul Verlaine's poem: It Shall Be, Then, Upon A Summer's Day

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