Beauty

Cecil Cope

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain;

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils,

Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

I have heard the song of the blossoms and the old chant of the sea,

And seen strange lands from under the arched white sails of ships;

But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has shown to me

Are her voice, and her hair, and her eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.