
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
What a treat to read this poem with your lovely scene as ample illustration!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I stumbled into the poem after a hike in a pathless woods and the poem and photo seemed perfectly paired.