The Cherry Blossom in harbor in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, United States
The twilight of the day was breathtaking with the boats and water of Old Town's harbor.
The harbor.
The Potomac River.
The path next to Founder's Park and the Potomac River in Old Town.
This series of photos and all the fantastic memories I have of Old Town Alexandria
reminded me of this poem--the inspiration for the post's title:
A Day of Sunshine
O gift of God! O perfect day:
Whereon shall no man work, but play;
Whereon it is enough for me,
Not to be doing, but to be!
Through ever fiber of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much.
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
And over me unrolls on high
The splendid scenery of the sky,
Where through a sapphire sea the sun
Sails like a golden galleon,
Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,
Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,
Whose steep sierra far uplifts
Its craggy summits white with drifts.
Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms
The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!
Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach!
O Life and Love! O happy throng
Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!
O heart of man! canst thou not be
Blithe as the air, and as free?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
