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Beautiful Landscape! I could look on thee For hours, unmindful of the storm and strife, And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. Here, all is still as fair—the stream, the tree, The wood, the sunshine on the bank; no tear— No thought of time’s swift wing, or closing night, Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,— No sighs of sad humanity are here. Here is no tint of mortal change—the day,— Beneath whose light the dog and peasant boy Gambol, with look, and almost bark, of joy— Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay; Then gaze again, that shadow’d scenes may teach Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.
Beautiful Landscape! I could look on thee For hours, unmindful of the storm and strife, And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. Here, all is still as fair—the stream, the tree, The wood, the sunshine on the bank; no tear— No thought of time’s swift wing, or closing night, Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,— No sighs of sad humanity are here. Here is no tint of mortal change—the day,— Beneath whose light the dog and peasant boy Gambol, with look, and almost bark, of joy— Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay; Then gaze again, that shadow’d scenes may teach Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 350 · printed citation: Bowles · subject: LAND
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