Oh half remembered, fleeting, happy time,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUDle4uQDc
When nothing mattered more than love and play,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1g4oOh48Vv
Imagination was then in its prime,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGmrC4lM7V
And life began anew with every day.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFrTqHZR8V
90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9K37qEBxkY
A flower was then a joy, a mystery,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDmRvfeeOB
And not a petal, root and simple stem,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxTlzdJ96k
And life was full of wondrous fantasy,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSKpOgwq3b
Untainted by the intellect of man.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQu6Jd8jIR
90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4zkKJPYu7
That time is gone now; it cannot return,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡir88WTSxzr
The fruit's been swallowed; its slow poison kills,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEtk8j6AtR
And yet my fallen heart will always yearn,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOoHiz20Fj
For that most happy time of unknown skills.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0UE5dzRwP
90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0x9cakinV
Oh false god, knowledge, daily you destroy,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs42eIUUWC5
All that was holy in me as a boy!90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8701HhExF

You can hear my reading of this sonnet (one of my earliest and still favorite) at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mkiCU9b6Ey2dYZIGoGs9y?si=coo0f3hWTaOTYu1hngGbow.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG50AaI6ALj