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O Prop of Heaven , would that so fair a city were built by thine ancient sires , the children of the sun , that so might all men see it even today , and not the poets only , whose vision sees it so far away to the South and in the future of time . `` O King of the Years , it shall stand midmost on that line that divideth equally the North from the South and that parteth the seasons asunder as with a screen . On the Northern side when summer is in the North thy silken guards shall pace by dazzling walls while thy spearsmen clad in furs go round the South . But at the hour of noon in the midmost day of the year thy chamberlain shall go down from his high place and into the midmost court , and men with trumpets shall go down behind him , and he shall utter a great cry at noon , and the men with trumpets shall cause their trumpets to blare , and the spearsmen clad in furs shall march to the North and thy silken guard shall take their place in the South , and summer shall leave the North and go to the South , and all the swallows shall rise and follow after . And alone in thine inner courts shall no change be , for they shall lie narrowly along that line that parteth the seasons in sunder and divideth the North from the South , and thy long gardens shall lie under them . `` And in thy gardens shall spring always be , for spring lies ever at the marge of summer ; and autumn also shall always tint thy gardens , for autumn always flares at winter 's edge , and those gardens shall lie apart between winter and summer . And there shall be orchards in thy garden , too , with all the burden of autumn on their boughs and all the blossom of spring .