Skardu: The Heaven on Earth

Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain head and source of rivers,

Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;
Drifting meadow of the air,
Where bloom the dasied banks and violets,
And in whose fenny labyrinth
The bittern booms and heron wades;
Spirit of the lake and seas and rivers,
Bear only purfumes and the scent
Of healing herbs to just men’s fields!

Mist by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)