(Photo thanks to Sara Burton)

When you walk through the high grass

Do you know how life is sweet?

Almost heedless as you pass

Of the magic at your feet

Do you hear us sing life’s glory

Where the grasses gently sway

Why do you want to make a story

Tell yourselves to drudge all day?

What made you silly humans

Think that ants can show the way?

They’re just stealing all your sugar

Grass is sweet enough I say

Do you know the jewelled treasure

That lives beneath your gaze?

Can you feel life’s truest pleasure

Singing joy throughout our days?

I am the prettiest grasshopper

I skip your heavy tread

I live the love of summer

Can such of you be said?

I say

Come live the love of summer

For soon we will be dead