If All I Had to Do Today was Write

If all I had to do today was write
About the interesting things I saw,
 The hilly, mountain views that filled my sight,
 I’d kiss my city-life and say au revoir.
If I could lay beneath the azure sky
And think of dialogues and poetry,
And watch the setting sun with blissful eye,
I think that then my spirit could run free.
Sometimes I think of lounging by a stream,
Aside a rocky, tumbling waterfall –
That I were there! and this were not a dream,
That sitting in my bedroom I recall,
 I’d still be sunk beneath the shady firs,
Living the life a man of thought prefers.