Here you will find thePoemLines To A Dragon Flyof poet Walter Savage Landor
Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream; I wish no happier one than to be laid Beneath some cool syringa's scented shade Or wavy willow, by the running stream, Brimful of Moral, where the Dragon Fly Wanders as careless and content as I. Thanks for this fancy, insect king, Of purple crest and filmy wing, Who with indifference givest up The water-lily's golden cup, To come again and overlook What I am writing in my book. Believe me, most who read the line Will read with hornier eyes than thine; And yet their souls shall live for ever, And thine drop dead into the river! God pardon them, O insect king, Who fancy so unjust a thing!
