Oh half remembered, fleeting, happy time,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ429VqBQab7
When nothing mattered more than love and play,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YbrsEgF7T
Imagination was then in its prime,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpUDoXslFi
And life began anew with every day.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsHhXoZYaB
80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW61opXqcN
A flower was then a joy, a mystery,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsPV3FPXVe
And not a petal, root and simple stem,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdMQxwbEXC
And life was full of wondrous fantasy,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCfYMKa5xI
Untainted by the intellect of man.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwVFxZQMCd
80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4K9B1R4ACB
That time is gone now; it cannot return,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93WYOXoSHu
The fruit's been swallowed; its slow poison kills,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuPvwlEOy9
And yet my fallen heart will always yearn,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TGoIyGRZ6
For that most happy time of unknown skills.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRnE9ZH9i4
80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ698PGRhIvO
Oh false god, knowledge, daily you destroy,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCO6PXCTgUb
All that was holy in me as a boy!80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7BC3h9z3i

You can hear my reading of this sonnet (one of my earliest and still favorite) at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mkiCU9b6Ey2dYZIGoGs9y?si=coo0f3hWTaOTYu1hngGbow.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxQAozW0KX