Oh half remembered, fleeting, happy time,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqysroXzFED
When nothing mattered more than love and play,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZHc12XKhR
Imagination was then in its prime,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEgqx6Yoyi
And life began anew with every day.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4e7yycS3z
16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvCOIHZGpp
A flower was then a joy, a mystery,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWfVdmOUoB
And not a petal, root and simple stem,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4HtBQDt1I
And life was full of wondrous fantasy,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4NuxvvI3S
Untainted by the intellect of man.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxHkhOjVGx
16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjGSXY44Ji
That time is gone now; it cannot return,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmV84YgcVO9
The fruit's been swallowed; its slow poison kills,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3E7EjZWo8Z
And yet my fallen heart will always yearn,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SprICn4hI
For that most happy time of unknown skills.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyXHNyciC5
16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTPLtWjxia
Oh false god, knowledge, daily you destroy,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASFw2YyvsY
All that was holy in me as a boy!16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXj0gErrum

You can hear my reading of this sonnet (one of my earliest and still favorite) at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mkiCU9b6Ey2dYZIGoGs9y?si=coo0f3hWTaOTYu1hngGbow.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6qaWXAx8b