Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Alfred Tennyson
Nature
A quote by Alfred Tennyson
From the source
The Golden Year.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.