The Wind

"O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!" (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The foxgloves have had a hard time of it in our garden today! The wind has battered the first cosmos, the roses and the catmint too.
Back home last night, I listened to the wind whistling down the chimney - its song was indeed very loud.

"I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky......"