Give Me...

Give me new morns with splendid sunshine and clear blue skies Give me fresh air with sweet whisperings of breeze Give me quiet days sans the bustle of hectic crowds each promising new wonders and joyous tidings Give me country sides with luxuriant vegetation and rich plantation Give me woodlands of varied flora and fauna so rare and rich that nowhere else are seen Give me gardens and brick laid pavements Where there grow such lovely blooms, nodding amorous to flirting dandies on colourful wings Give me running brooks and rushing streams upon whose fertile banks tall trees and bushes green, in singles and files grow Give me orchards, beautiful and fair with fruit laden trees, so wonderful and rare Give me vast fields of ripening corn and paddy where farmers joyfully gather to harvest their year’s toil Give me vineyards of trellised vine with hanging clusters of grapes, green and maroon Give me ponds and wells of crystalline water to quench the thirst and turn fallows into fecund lands Give me woods and forest tracks where spring lingers all the year round and beyond and birds on tree tops merrily sit and sing whose harmonious notes in every nook and corner ring Oh! Give me ‘Nature in all its primal sanities’ And souls with nicety of hearts, free of all affectations! !