June Day Dream

A Summer afternoon cloudless and bright And flitting butterflies in June sunlight In quarrelous mood above the flower decked lea Fight it out for patch of territory. And I lay in the shadow of the trees In lush green meadow grass up to the knees And humid heat induce upon me sleep And I fall fast into a slumber deep. And rippling sound of little nearby stream Sweet background music to a pleasant dream And I was in the Paradise of God Through serene Land where angels dwell I trod. God's kingdom is a place of peace and joy Here butterflies don't quarrel in the sky In this Land creatures never disagree But live and love in perfect harmony. And here the sun shines brightly every day And roses bloom all year 'tis always May And streams flow free and pure and never dry And nothing age and nothing ever die. And winged angels carol on the wing And all year round the merry songbirds sing And I live in a truly blissful state A billion miles from lust and greed and hate A billion miles from Planet Earth and men In peaceful happy land unstained by sin Where strife and sorrow is an alien word And all things live in harmonious accord. A grunting bullock drinking from the stream Cause me to wake from an enchanting dream And bickering blackbirds quarreling on hedgerow Welcome me back to the only World I know.