July + 

Naught moves but clouds, and in the glassy lake + 

Their doubles and the shadow of my boat. + 

The boat itself stirs only when I break + 

This drowse of heat and solitude afloat + 

To prove if what I see be bird or mote, + 

Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake. + 

Long hours since dawn grew⁠—spread⁠—and passed on high + 

And deep below⁠—I have watched the cool reeds hung + 

Over images more cool in imaged sky: + 

Nothing there was worth thinking of so long; + 

All that the ring-doves say, far leaves among, + 

Brims my mind with content thus still to lie. + 