by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962)

Language: English 
 Though people more wise
 May laugh me to scorn,
 At least I was gay
 From the hour I was born.
 Just like the wind
 On a midsummer morn
	Teasing the poppies,
	The arrogant poppies,
	Teasing the poppies
	That peer from the corn.

 What lovers I've seen, 
 What vows they have sworn,
 I listened, I laughed
 And I left them forlorn;
 Just like the wind 
 On a midsummer morn
	Teasing the poppies,
	The arrogant poppies,
	Teasing the poppies
	That peer from the corn.

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