Sojourn In The Paradise Garden

Sojourn In The Paradise Garden

I once glimpsed a Paradise
Ere unseen by mortal eyes,
Where people harvested the corn,
Or sat and whiled away the morn.

Lovers lay amongst the wheat
And drank of passion's nectar sweet,
Others laughed while gathering rye,
And pitched their crops on wagons high.

They worked at will, or took their ease,
No-one but themselves to please
Pleasure ruled the Summer day,
Theirs to use or dream away.

Maidens flirted with their swains
To steal a kiss behind hay-wains.
Youth was king, away with care!
I would have stayed forever there.

Then I awoke, and left the scene
The Paradise from where I'd been.
Never more its joys to find,
Until I leave this world behind.

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