I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming <br />Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after; <br />The solemn world was sucked along with it—a streaming <br />Land-slide of loveliness. O, but I rocked with laughter, <br />Staring, and clinging to my tree-top. For a lake <br />Of gleaming peace swept on behind. (I mustn’t wake.) <br /> <br />And then great clouds gathered and burst in spumes of green <br />That plunged into the water; and the sun came out <br />On glittering islands thronged with orchards scarlet-bloomed; <br />And rosy-plumed flamingoes flashed across the scene... <br />O, but the beauty of their freedom made me shout... <br />And when I woke I wondered where on earth I’d been.<br /><br />Siegfried Sassoon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/miracles-2/
