Let the Sunshine in

For F.

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.

- Byron