< Poems of Passion
For works with similar titles, see A Picture.

I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
  One solitary picture struck my eye:
  A distant ploughboy stood against the sky—
How far he seemed above the noisy town!

Upon the bosom of a cloud the sod
  Laid its bruised cheek as he moved slowly by,
  And, watching him, I asked myself if I
In very truth stood half as near to God.

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