Things I Love

I love to sit by a shallow stream

And watch the ripple

over small pebbles

And there weave my long daydream,

Away from the world's worry and troubles.

I love to lie beneath a leafy tree

And look up high at the blue sky,

See the leaves create a fancy pattern of lace

While sail-clouds like a flimsy veil flit by.

I love a clouded sunset

With the sun gently peeping through

Cloud-castles tinted from fawn

to rosy hues.

I love a slow, drowsy dawn;

The beautiful awakening of day;

The twittering of birds on my lawn;

The mysterious night slipping away.

I love to stand on a high hill,

Scan the deep emerald valleys below,

See the friendly, peaceful rill

Like a silver ribbon zigzagging its flow.

I love the twilight shadows,

Silhouetted trees against the sky,

The vast sweet silence

Of day's gentle passing by.

~ Daisy Covin Walker