Where The Entire World Is Abundant With Great Joy (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

On this bright lovely day you do seem so sadly
where the entire world is abundant with great joy,
and I will accompany you into nature gladly
while the smallest thing seems to you annoy.

In the veldt and in the wood there are many sounds
that does fall in simple tranquil loveliness upon the ear,
here everything is serene with nothing that confounds,
while tranquillity and songs of love and praise we do hear

Mark how one bird does sing of great happiness to another
and also how all of life seems right here such a simple thing
while without words just observing we do walk with each other
and hear the redbreast, the cuckoo and weaver their songs sing

where each bird has got a partner as a loved and special one
as if a struggle and hardship and worry there is none.