There is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods

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.

 

~ George Gordon Byron

 

 

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Wikipedia