Genius Loci by Margaret Woods
b"Woods read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nGenius Loci\\nby Margaret Woods \\n\\nPeace, Shepherd, peace! What boots it singing on? \\n Since long ago grace-giving Phoebus died, \\n And all the train that loved the stream-bright side \\nOf the poetic mount with him are gone \\nBeyond the shores of Styx and Acheron, \\n In unexplor\\xe8d realms of night to hide. \\n The clouds that strew their shadows far and wide \\nAre all of Heaven that visits Helicon. \\nYet here, where never muse or god did haunt, \\n Still may some nameless power of Nature stray,\\nPleased with the reedy stream's continual chant \\n And purple pomp of these broad fields in May. \\nThe shepherds meet him where he herds the kine, \\nAnd careless pass him by whose is the gift divine."