Charles Lloyd - Written after a Walk by Rydal Water, Westmoreland, in Time of War lyrics

In such a day how calm and mild this scene, Made for poetic thought. The woods displayed Of brown and yellow every varying shade And here and there the fresh and lingering green Told yet of summer and her days serene, Too soon departed! Fading fern arrayed The russet hills; and as faint sun-gleams strayed, In warmer hues the upland slopes were seen. Oh, beauteous aspect of a beauteous world! Mournful to think how little understood! In man's distempered heart hath frenzy hurled Envenomed shafts. The sword, defiled with blood, Lays waste the earth; and over the ocean flood The crimson flag of discord is unfurled.