A Day Of Sunshine

O gift of God! O perfect day:     Whereon shall no man work, but play;     Whereon it is enough for me,     Not to be doing, but to be!     Through every fibre of my brain,     Through every nerve, through every vein,     I feel the electric thrill, the touch     Of life, that seems almost too much.     I hear the wind among the trees     Playing celestial symphonies;     I see the branches downward bent,     Like keys of some great instrument.     And over me unrolls on high     The splendid scenery of the sky,     Where though a sapphire sea the sun     Sails like a golden galleon,     Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,     Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,     Whose steep sierra far uplifts     Its craggy summits white with drifts.     Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms     The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!     Blow, winds! and bend within my reach     The fiery blossoms of the peach!     O Life and Love! O happy throng     Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!     O heart of man! canst thou not be     Blithe as the air is, and as free?