Which statement best describes the theme of "a day for wandering"?
the country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.
being among nature’s beauty can make a person feel small.
one must appreciate nature’s beauty in order to understand life.
the beauty of nature is fleeting and may one day disappear.
a day for wandering
by clinton scollard
i set apart a day for wandering;
i heard the woodlands ring,
the hidden white-throat sing,
and the harmonic west,
beyond a far hill-crest,
touch its aeolian string.
remote from all the brawl and bruit of men,
the iron tongue of trade,
i followed the clear calling of a wren
deep to the bosom of a sheltered glade,
where interwoven branches spread a shade
of soft cool beryl like the evening seas
unruffled by the breeze.
and there—and there—
i watched the maiden-hair,
the pale blue iris-grass,
the water-spider in its pause and pass
upon a pool that like a mirror was.
i took for confidant
the diligent ant
threading the clover and the sorrel aisles;
for me were all the smiles
of the sequestered blossoms there abloom—
chalice and crown and plume
i drank the ripe rich attars blurred and blent,
and won—content!