HAD I the power that have the will, <br />The enfeebled will - a modern curse - <br />This book of mine should blossom still <br />A perfect garden-ground of verse. <br /> <br />White placid marble gods should keep <br />Good watch in every shadowy lawn; <br />And from clean, easy-breathing sleep <br />The birds should waken me at dawn. <br /> <br />- A fairy garden; - none the less <br />Throughout these gracious paths of mine <br />All day there should be free access <br />For stricken hearts and lives that pine; <br /> <br />And by the folded lawns all day - <br />No idle gods for such a land - <br />All active Love should take its way <br />With active Labour hand in hand.<br /><br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/had-i-the-power-that-have-the-will/
