• Those were good times, in olden days,
      Of which the poet has his dreams,
    When gods beset the woodland ways,
      And lay in wait by all the streams.

    One could be sure of something then
      Severely simple, simply grand,
    Or keenly, subtly sweet, as when
      Venus and Love went hand in hand.

    Now I would give (such is my need)...

  • Those were good times, in olden days,
      Of which the poet has his dreams,
    When gods beset the woodland ways,
      And lay in wait by all the streams.

    One could be sure of something then
      Severely simple, simply grand,
    Or keenly, subtly sweet, as when
      Venus and Love went hand in hand.

    Now I would give (such is my need)...