There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
By Lord George Gordon Byron, © 1813
It's a beautiful verse, but it's too often quoted without the rest of the poem, which is rather more thought provoking.
ReplyDeleteTrue! That's us... Even from a few lines of a poem, we take what we seek :)
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