Oh fair enough are sky and plain, <br />But I know fairer far: <br />Those are as beautiful again <br />That in the water are; <br /> <br />The pools and rivers wash so clean <br />The trees and clouds and air, <br />The like on earth was never seen, <br />And oh that I were there. <br /> <br />These are the thoughts I often think <br />As I stand gazing down <br />In act upon the cressy brink <br />To strip and dive and drown; <br /> <br />But in the golden-sanded brooks <br />And azure meres I spy <br />A silly lad that longs and looks <br />And wishes he were I.<br /><br />Alfred Edward Housman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oh-fair-enough-are-sky-and-plain/
