Give me new morns of splendid sunshine and clear blue skies with soft wind humming sweetly to the timeless rhythm
Give me fresh air with gentle whispering of breeze to be kissed passionately and tickled playfully
Give me quiet days sans the bustle of hectic crowds each promising new wonders and joyous tidings
Give me country sides with luxuriant vegetation and rich plantation to feel partitioned off the soot and dirt of roaring cities
**Give me woodlands of varied flora and fauna so rare and rich that nowhere else are seen
Give me gardens and brick laid pavements where there grow such lovely blooms, nodding amorous to flirting dandies on colorful wings
Give me running brooks and rushing streams upon whose fertile banks tall trees and bushes green, in singles and files grow
Give me orchards, beautiful and fair with fruit laden trees, so wonderful and rare
Give me vast fields of ripening corn and paddy where farmers joyfully gather to harvest their year’s toil
Give me vineyards of trellised vine with hanging clusters of grapes, green and maroon
Give me ponds and wells of crystalline water to quench the thirst and turn fallows into fecund lands
Give me woods and forest tracks where spring lingers all the year round and beyond where birds on tree tops merrily sit and sing whose harmonious notes in every nook and corner ring
Oh! Give me Nature in all ‘its primal sanities’ And souls with nicety of hearts, free of all affectations!!
Inspired by Walt Whitman's poem Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun!