Excerpt from Discipline of Earth and Time for Freedom and Immortality: Four Books of an Unpublished Poem Fresh streams, and running brooks, and bright cascades, And shady groves, and green and lovely lanes.
Islands of foliage, desert-skirted, pour Beauty and fragrance to the eager breeze; And lines of clustering verdure, tangled, deep, Follow the rivers, from the shady verge Of inland lakes, or lowly-bosomed springs And at the base of mighty mountain-ranges, Primeval woods hang o'er the craggy rocks, And skirt, with solemn, silent, darkening fringe, The glittering icy peaks and continents.
And in fair regions nearer to the sun, What vast majestic forests, whose wide reach Of verdure, as a boundless, living sea, Rolls off in gloomy, pathless, waving depths, A wilderness of vegetable forms.
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