Poems (Schiller)/What I love (I love the green woods)
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Poems Composed in Childhood
WHAT I LOVE
I love the green woods, Their bright birds and flowers,Their moss-covered rocks, Shady nooks and green bowers.
I love the blue sky, So calm and serene—I love this great earth, When robed in bright green.
I love the brook, With its waters so bright;That reflect the sun by day, And the moon and stars by night.
I love the broad, deep river, That flows a-past our town;And empties into the Chesapeake bay, Some hundred miles farther down.[Aged 13 years.]