Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee <br />For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife, <br />And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. <br />Here, all is still as fair--the stream, the tree, <br />The wood, the sunshine on the bank: no tear <br />No thought of time's swift wing, or closing night <br />Which comes to steal away the long sweet light, <br />No sighs of sad humanity are here. <br /> <br />Here is no tint of mortal change--the day <br />Beneath whose light the dog and peasant-boy <br />Gambol with look, and almost bark, of joy-- <br />Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay. <br />Then gaze again, that shadowed scenes may teach <br />Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.<br /><br />William Lisle Bowles<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-a-beautiful-landscape/
