I Have Thoughts that Are Fed by the Sun by William Wordsworth

I have thoughts that are fed by the sun:

     The things which I see

     Are welcome to me,

     Welcome every one –

     I do not wish to lie

          Dead, dead,

Dead, without any company.

     Here alone on my bed

With thoughts that are fed by the sun,

And hopes that are welcome every one,

     Happy am I.

Oh life there is about thee

A deep delicious peace;

I would not be without thee,

     Stay, oh stay!

Yet be thou ever as now –

Sweetness and breath, with the quiet of death –

Be but thou ever as now,

     Peace, peace, peace.

 

~Public Domain

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