Dartside by Charles Kingsley — Read

I cannot tell what you say, green leaves, / I cannot tell what you say: / But I know that there is a spirit in you, / And a word in you this day.

I cannot tell what you say, rosy rocks, / I cannot tell what you say: / But I know that there is a spirit in you, / And a word in you this day.

I cannot tell what you say, brown streams, / I cannot tell what you say: / But I know that in you too a spirit doth live, / And a word doth speak this day.

'Oh green is the colour of faith and truth, / And rose the colour of love and youth, / And brown of the fruitful clay.

Sweet Earth is faithful, and fruitful, and young, / And her bridal day shall come ere long, / And you shall know what the rocks and the streams / And the whispering woodlands say.'

Drew's Teignton, Dartmoor, / July 31, 1849.