Where are the echoes that bore the strains

Each to his nearest neighbour:

And all the valleys and all the plains

Where all the nymphs and their love-sick swains

Made merry to pipe and tabor?

Where are they gone? They are gone to sleep

Where Fancy alone can find them:

But Arcady's times are like the sheep

That quitted the care of Little Bo-Peep,

For they've left their tales behind them!