“I walk the unfrequented road
With open eye and ear;
I watch afield the farmer load
The bounty of the year.
I gather where I did not sow,
And bind the mystic sheaf,
The amber air, the river’s flow,
The rustle of the leaf.
A beauty springtime never knew
Haunts all the quiet ways,
And sweeter shines the landscape through
Its veil of autumn haze.
I face the hills, the streams, the wood,
And feel with all akin;
My heart expands: their fortitude
And peace and joy flow in.”
Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840 – 1929)
Chorlton Unitarians 