Archibald Lampman - An Old Lesson From the Fields lyrics

Even as I watched the daylight how it sped From noon till eve, and saw the light wind pa** In long pale waves across the flashing gra**, And heard through all my dreams, wherever led, The thin cicada singing overhead, I felt what joyance all this nature has, And saw myself made clear as in a gla**, How that my soul was for the most part dead. Oh, light, I cried, and, heaven, with all your blue, Oh, earth, with all your sunny fruitfulness, And ye, tall lillies, of the wind-vexed field, What power and beauty life indeed might yield, Could we but cast away its conscious stress, Simple of heart, becoming even as you.