From a Farther Room

Let her be some Sabrina fresh from stream,
Lucent as shallows slowed by wading sun,
Bedded on fern, the flowers’ cynosure:
Then nymph and wood must nod and strive to dream
That she is airy earth, the trees, undone,
Must ape her languor natural and pure.

Ceremony
by Richard Wilbur

St. Croix River at William O’Brien State Park, near Marine-on-St.-Croix, Minnesota.