Those wondrous dreams, so beautifully told!
It seems that I have through enchantment passed,
And lived and loved in that fair court of old.
"Yes, yes, I know—
The old Greek idylls about which you rave,
Theocritus and his melodious flow
Of verse, and all that Moschus sang o'er Bion's grave.
"You've shown me oft
How far superior all that they have said—
That Tennyson has learned to soar aloft