Yet to Come

Cheer up my friends, we’ll have a change,

     Of weather by and by;

‘Twon’t always be like it is now

     So awful hot and dry.

You say you’d welcome any change,

     This dry heat makes you dumb;

O well, cheer up, you know we have

     The dog days yet to come.

The July Sun, so blinding hot,

     Won’t scorch so by and by;

There’ll be a low-hung bank of haze

     Across the summer sky.

The change desired, without a doubt,

     Will benefit you some;

Cheer up and brace yourself to meet

     The dog days yet to come.

July 13, ‘09