Oh half remembered, fleeting, happy time,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnvM5TaLXU
When nothing mattered more than love and play,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPxp9fT1PR
Imagination was then in its prime,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiXWzIt4pT
And life began anew with every day.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKIpgMi28U
84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuW0l76gtxy
A flower was then a joy, a mystery,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBR3wTobNG
And not a petal, root and simple stem,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgV5qPCeB9o
And life was full of wondrous fantasy,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQclwohEKBQ
Untainted by the intellect of man.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuhQ2oQ6VN
84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdjAiUnUF5
That time is gone now; it cannot return,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtQL1MJ69M
The fruit's been swallowed; its slow poison kills,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPUWTdTJBD
And yet my fallen heart will always yearn,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccwEHTaaXt
For that most happy time of unknown skills.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIKWo6NKN6
84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82iJQjK3GP
Oh false god, knowledge, daily you destroy,84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KwhNoJA1s
All that was holy in me as a boy!84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GL65cy50g

You can hear my reading of this sonnet (one of my earliest and still favorite) at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mkiCU9b6Ey2dYZIGoGs9y?si=coo0f3hWTaOTYu1hngGbow.84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53EEgsima7