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.

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 through a sapphire sea the sun

Sails like a golden galleon.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.