“A world of wonder lay withoutIt was all of nature’s callingWith field and forest, clouds and sunCascades of salt water falling With heights and valleys, dark ravinesIvy thick and wild, deep and thorny scenesAnd yet each thing did love its placeIn the lap of all of nature’s sprawling And so and so it goes, and so and so it goes I asked the one whose land this wasIf I might have a tokenTo take with me back to the other sideTo have and to keep unspoken I asked three times and was thrice deniedI asked again without my prideAnd found …
