Poem by Henry Alford

A Day Dream

Leave love, leave life:-our moments are made up
Of fragments of desire: O that with thee
  In some tree-shaded vale
  I might live out my years;
Listening a lordly river over stones
Trailing its waters, or the leafy sighs
Of wooded hedge-rows; or in flowery paths
Nursing bright blooms; while still and unobserved
  The years should draw their train:
  Then under sunny rocks
Weave curious tales of love, and look through life
Into the inner springs of human thought;
Presenting to the insight of our souls
Honour, and faith, and old integrity,
  And mighty leaps of will
  Down the slow course of fate;
  And how the ages grand
  Tended with mystic chime
  Of night-enthralling song
  The Time-long sleep of Truth.

1. Sunset at Burton Pynsent, Somerset
2. Written at Ampton, Suffolk
3. Summit of Skiddaw, July 7, 1838
4. Written at Ampton, Suffolk, January, 1838
5. Rydal Mount, June, 1838

Carolyn Wells A Day Dream ("Polly's patchwork--oh, dear me!")

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