Classic Poem

O does some blind fool now stand on my hill
To see how Ashleworth nestles by the river?
Where eyes and heart and soul may drink their fill.

The Cotswolds stand out eastward as if never
A curve of them the hand of Time might change,
Beauty sleeps most confidently for ever.

The blind fools stands, his dull eyes free to range
Endlessly almost, and finds no word to say:
Not that the sense of wonder is too strange

Too great for speech. Naught touches him; the day
Blows its glad trumpets, breathes rich-odoured breath
Glory after glory passes away

(And I'm in France!). He looks, and sees beneath
The clouds in steady Severn silver and grey
But dead he is, and comfortable in death.