One more from the library

Just ran across this one and I just can't help myself. I'll cease and
desist for a while, I promise.

This afternoon I was looking through an older edition of Housman's "A
Shropshire Lad" and this one fairly leapt out at me. Enjoy!

XX

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;

The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.

These are the thoughts I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;

But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.