George Darley (Джордж Дарли)

Lenimina Laborum. 29. In an Album

Day-dreaming one-tide, upon a sunny mountain,
When nought but the wild-birds and waterfalls were near.
Heard I a voice like the music of a fountain,
Its language as liquid, its melody as clear.

Murmuring deeply, the stream methought addrest me,
(If that which addrest me indeed were but a stream):
"Say, hath ill-fortune, or idleness, possest thee,
To lose all thy life in a melancholy dream?"

"Buoyant and gladsome, my step was free as thine is,
Wlien fresh from the life-spring of Nature," I replied;
"Streamlet! thy course will perchance be slow as mine is.
And lonely like me thro' the valleys thou wilt glide:

Oft at a green bank delaying thy blue motion,
Thou'lt stretch thee to sleep, with a scarcely-heaving breast;
World-wearied, sun-sick, thou'lt wind at length to ocean.
And seek in the loss of thy being to be blest" 

1. The Gambols of Children
2. Lenimina Laborum. 32. In an Album
3. Lenimina Laborum. 55. Deep in the ocean's thundering wave
4. Lenimina Laborum. 4. Prayer at Burial
5. Lenimina Laborum. 6. I'm a rover! I'm a rover

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