Sailing homeward
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Cliffs that rise a thousand feet
Without a break,
Lake that stretches a hundred miles
Without a wave,
[Sands that are white all through the year,
Without a stain,]
Pine-tree woods, winter and summer
Ever-green,
Streams that for ever flow and flow
Without a pause,
Trees that for twenty thousand years
Your vows have kept,
You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveller's heart,
And moved his brush to write a new song.