by John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)

Serenity
Language: English 
The smiling sea 
And land do dream, and sky ; 
The very bee
Doth dream as he goes by!

In dreamy fields
Of blue, moon's scimitar
Doth dream he shields
One dreaming, timid star.

The barques drift slow.
And, dreaming, melt away
Where golden glow
Consoles the death of day

And land is stark
With that far row of trees
Like puff-balls, dark,
And eerie, down the breeze.

The dreaming flowers,
The dreaming lovers nod.
Serene these hours —
Serenity is God

Confirmed with John Galsworthy, Moods, Songs, & Doggerels, London: William Heinemann, 1912, pages 27-28.


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