On a walk companioned by my Muse along the sylvan meadows <br />We wandered away to delightful realms in unclouded ambience <br />Don't know how long I rambled warming my fancies in sunset fires <br />Must be for long, all lights were out, the quiet hamlet lay bathed in sleep <br /> <br />Above me, stood the starry firmament and the half hidden moon <br />Could see the vast plains stretching before me in moonlight, bare <br />My heart was flooded with joy, my fancies took to wings <br />Got drowned in Nature's serene calm, my spirit lost in drunken ecstasy <br /> <br />In the gentle blowing breeze, the leaves twittered and murmured <br />All else was quiet and nothing disturbed the serenity of the night <br />But soon I knew the East wind strengthening around into a gale <br />And across the moon I could see stragglers of clouds moving past <br /> <br />I sat on a rock, lost, so lost staring into the clear night sky <br />Wondering how the celestial joy, made manifest by the twinkling stars <br />My thoughts began floating like a ship over the briny waters <br />And my temporal settings faded away like a cloud in the horizon <br /> <br />From the nearby woods, I heard the song of a lone night bird <br />In rising cadence, alone and aloud it fell on my rapturous ears <br />Was it a nightingale that poured forth that dewy delight? <br />Was it the same song, Keats heard long ago cascading from the woods? <br /> <br />With my Muse in this unearthly hour let me sit awhile in this solitary bower <br />To my paper, let my fancies in unbroken crystal streams flow <br />Wonder if I can rightly recreate the image that my thoughts enfold <br />How I wish, I could like Coleridge, build a pleasure dome in mid air!<br /><br />Valsa George<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-company-of-my-muse/
