Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Bio: Lena Guilbert Brown Ford, middle name sometimes listed as Gilbert, was a lyricist, best known for "Keep the Home Fires Burning" which she wrote during the First World War.
