Wednesday, July 07, 2010
There Was a Time
James Henry (1798-1876), To ***, in Poems Chiefly Philosophical (Dresden: C.C. Meinhold and Sons, 1856), p. 133:
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There was a time when to our view
This dull old world looked fresh and new,
And you loved me and I loved you,
There was a time.
There was a time when young and gay
We frolicked through the livelong day,
And all our whole year was one May,
There was a time.
There was a time we did not dream
That things are other than they seem
And with delusive lustre gleam,
There was a time.
There was a time we had not yet
Learned to fume and cark and fret
And thankless riches hardly get,
There was a time.
There was a time — but it is past;
The child's become a man at last,
And age and death are coming fast,
There was a time.
