OUNG Love forsook the highways,

All decked in their robes of Spring,

And, far into silent by-ways,

He fluttered on golden wing.

Blithe youths and maidens chased him,

“He is only tired,” they said.

To a streamlet’s brink they chased him,

Then sighed that Love was dead.

On, on through the shining meadows,

As the rays of the evening fell,