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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. June
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A DAY AT HAMPTON COURT

 It is our custom, once in every year,
 Mine and two others`, when the chestnut trees
 Are white at Bushey, Ascot being near,
 To drive to Hampton Court, and there, at ease
 In that most fair of English palaces,
 Spend a long summer`s day. What better cheer
 Than the old ``Greyhound`s,`` seek it where you please?
 And where a royal garden statelier?

 The morning goes in tennis, a four set,
 With George the marker. `Tis a game for gods,
 Full of return and volley at the net,
 And laughter and mirth--making episodes
 Not wholly classic. But the afternoon
 Finds us punt--fishing idly with our rods,
 Nodding and half in dreams, till all too soon
 Darkness and dinner drive us back to town.
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