For this, your boy’s undoing,

If ’mong the feathers I should die

I’ll not regret my wooing.


’Twas midnight; the tables were spread to regale,

Then followed a story, a song and some ale;

The “Oracle” sang of a magical stream

That murmured a strangely mysterious theme;

The shy Letha Lane and the bold Roland Rare

Gave a song and a dance that was passingly fair,