A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ. <br /> <br />Stranger! mark this lovely scene, <br />When the evening sets serene, <br />And starting o'er the silent wood, <br />The last pale sunshine streaks the flood, <br />And the water gushing near <br />Soothes, with ceaseless drip, thine ear; <br />Then bid each passion sink to rest;-- <br />Should ev'n one wish rise in thy breast, <br />One tender wish, as now in mine, <br />That some such quiet spot were thine, <br />And thou, recalling seasons fled, <br />Couldst wake the slumbers of the dead, <br />And bring back her you loved, to share <br />With thee calm peace and comfort there;-- <br />Oh, check the thought, but inly pray <br />To HE, 'who gives and takes away,' <br />That many years this fair domain <br />Its varied beauties may retain;-- <br />So when some wanderer, who has lost <br />His heart's best treasure, who has crossed <br />In life bleak hills and passes rude, <br />Should gain this lovely solitude; <br />Delighted he may pause a while, <br />And when he marks the landscape smile, <br />Leave with its willows, ere he part, <br />The blessings of a softened heart.<br /><br />William Lisle Bowles<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pole-vellum-cornwall/
