The Song of the Happy Shepherd
thE woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is tique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey truted toy;
Yet still surns less head:
But O, sick che world,
Of all things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
to tune t Chronos sings,
ords alone are certain good.
he warring kings,
ord be-mockers? - By the Rood,
ring kings?
An idle heir glory,
By tammering schoolboy said,
Reading some entangled story:
time are dead;
th herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
troubling the endless reverie.
ty deeds,
Nor seek, for th,
to er truth,
Lest all toiling only breeds
Neruth
Saving in t. Seek, then,
No learning from tarry men,
ic glass
tars t pass -
Seek, th,
No ar-bane
ts in twain,
And dead is all truth.
Go gathe humming sea
Some ted, echo-harbouring shell.
And to its lips tory tell,
And ters will be.
Rewording in melodious guile
tful tle while,
till th
And die a pearly brotherhood;
For ain good:
Sing, th.
I must be gone: there is a grave
here daffodil and lily wave,
And I he hapless faun,
Buried under the sleepy ground,
ithe dawn.
ing days h were crowned;
And still I dream reads the lawn,
alking gly in