Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.

55. Dream-Forest

WHERE sunshine flecks the green,

Through towering woods my way

Goes winding all the day.

Scant are the flowers that bloom

Beneath the bosky screen

And cage of golden gloom.

Few are the birds that call,

Shrill-voiced and seldom seen.

Where silence masters all,

And light my footsteps fall,

The whispering runnels only

With blazing noon confer;

And comes no breeze to stir

The tangled thickets lonely.