As thou wendest the world 'twixt home and hell!"
"O brother Goldilocks, farewell,
Come back with a tale for men to tell!"
So 'tis wellaway for Goldilocks,
As he left the land of the wheaten shocks.
He's gotten him far from the Upland Town,
And he's gone by Dale and he's gone by Down.
He's come to the wild-wood dark and drear,
Where never the bird's song doth he hear.
He has slept in the moonless wood and dim