Sweet was the scene! apart the cedars stood. <br />A sunny islet open'd in the wood; <br />With vernal tints the wild-brier as thicket glows, <br />For here the desert flourish'd as the rose; <br />From sapling trees with lucid foliage crown'd, <br />Gay lights and shadows twinkled on the ground: <br />Up the tall stems luxuriant creepers run <br />To hang their silver blossoms in the sun; <br />Deep velvet verdure clad the turf beneath, <br />Where trodden flowers their richest odours breathe; <br />O'er all, the bees with murmuring music flew <br />From bell to bell, to sip the treasured dew; <br />Whilst insect myriads in their solar gleams, <br />Glanced to and fro, like intermingling beams; <br />So fresh, so pure, the woods, the sky, the air, <br />It seem'd a place where angels might repair, <br />And tune their harps beneath those tranquil shades, <br />To morning songs or moonlight serenades!<br /><br />James Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sweet-landscape/
