“The sunshine of a summer sun”

May 17 1836 The sunshine of a summer sun ¹ Oer the proud domes of Elrington Glows with a beam divinly bright In one unquenched unvaried light And high its arched windows rise As if to invite the smiling skies And proud its mighty columns shew Between them ranked in haughty row And sweet and soft the solemn shade By the oerarching portals made The statly halls of Elrington May fitly meet that glorious sun For fetès and feasts are given to day To Noble Lords and Ladies gay And that vast City of the Sea Which round us lies so endlessly Has hither poured its proudest train To worship mirth and fly from pain The sunshine of a summers sun Glows oct the groves of Elrington Where city girt spreads wide around The flower and foliage laden ground All round the Hot and glaring sky Bespeaks a might city nigh And through each opening in the shade Palace and temple crown the glade So here as an oasis stands Mid the wide waste of Egypts sands This glorious vision of a grove With flowers beneath and fruits above Lies in that Citys human sea Whose streets stretch round so ceaslessly Oh who could pass unnoticed by This scene of Natures royalty Instead of Birds to warble there Etherial music fills the air Breathed from these Halls thrown open wide To admit the ever changing tide Of Earth and Africs hope and pride