Let us put awhile away <br />All the cares of work-a-day, <br />For a golden time forget, <br />Task and worry, toil and fret, <br />Let us take a day to dream <br />In the meadow by the stream. <br /> <br />We may lie in grasses cool <br />Fringing a pellucid pool, <br />We may learn the gay brook-runes <br />Sung on amber afternoons, <br />And the keen wind-rhyme that fills <br />Mossy hollows of the hills. <br /> <br />Where the wild-wood whisper stirs <br />We may talk with lisping firs, <br />We may gather honeyed blooms <br />In the dappled forest glooms, <br />We may eat of berries red <br />O'er the emerald upland spread. <br /> <br />We may linger as we will <br />In the sunset valleys still, <br />Till the gypsy shadows creep <br />From the starlit land of sleep, <br />And the mist of evening gray <br />Girdles round our pilgrim way. <br /> <br />We may bring to work again <br />Courage from the tasselled glen, <br />Bring a strength unfailing won <br />From the paths of cloud and sun, <br />And the wholesome zest that springs <br />From all happy, growing things.<br /><br />Lucy Maud Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-day-off/
