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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

I. Nature’s Influence

“Come to these scenes of peace”

William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850)

COME to these scenes of peace,

Where, to rivers murmuring,

The sweet birds all the summer sing,

Where cares and toil and sadness cease!

Stranger, does thy heart deplore

Friends whom thou wilt see no more?

Does thy wounded spirit prove

Pangs of hopeless, severed love?

Thee the stream that gushes clear,

Thee the birds that carol near

Shall soothe, as silent thou dost lie

And dream of their wild lullaby;

Come to bless these scenes of peace,

Where cares and toil and sadness cease.