Oh fair enough are sky and plain

A.E.Housman

1859 to 1936

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Those are as beautiful again
 And oh that I were there.
In act upon the cressy brink
 And azure meres I spy
 And wishes he were I.
The like on earth was never seen,
These are the thoughts I often think
A silly lad that longs and looks
 As I stand gazing down
The pools and rivers wash so clean
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
 The trees and clouds and air,
 That in the water are;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
 To strip and dive and drown;
 But I know fairer far: