User:Mikoshi/poetry/Nature

When We First Met

When we first met upon the stream

Where the tadpoles swim

And the sandy shores gleam;

Where waterfall runs

Like a meteor-filled sky,

And the rush of the water

Echoes through, by and by;

Where the birds do chirp

And the deer do graze;

Where the drops from the sky

Meet the drops from the waves;

Where the sun-shaded grass

And the sun-stricken trees

Are all the same target

Of the unseen breeze;

I saw you amongst all the natural scene

And my vision became beauty-stained --

If vanished from view all the glorious green,

Equal wonder would still remain.