ARCADIE. II

I travelled many winding ways

That weary seemed to me,

In cloudy nights and windy days

To find old Arcadie.

The shepherds by the wayside wept

"We fain would go with thee,

An 'twere not for the sheep we kept,

To far off Arcadie."

Along the selfsame way I fare

And the shepherds ask of me,

"Hast thou seen the sweet land anywhere?"

"Yea, but the people dwelling there

Know not 'tis Arcadie."