Park Benjamin - Sonnets II lyrics

Upon an eminence I seem to stand, And look around me. Backward I survey A lovely prospect, stretching far away Through mists that curtain all the nearer land. There once I wandered gayly, hand in hand With the companions of my happy spring; It was Life's realm of Fairy, rainbow-spanned, Where birds and brooks together loved to sing, And every cloud made pictures as it sailed. That music yet resounds, those pictures shine Through the far distance Time has faintly veiled, Though many a rock, stream, valley intervene Between me and that fairy-haunted scene.