Love In Arcady

What to us is time or space, Hours of absence, days of grace; As we rule and reign alone In a kingdom of our own? Love like ours is up to date, Sneers at fortune, conquers Fate; Makes the loves of early times Look like three bright, shiny dimes. Couldn’t we give cards and spades To historic lovers’ shades! Easily our love can beat That of Faust and Marguerite. Heloise and Abelard Stooped to tricks that we’d discard; Orpheus and Eurydice Only knew a simple way; Launcelot and Guinevere Wondering would our love-songs hear, And a few things we might show Juliet and Romeo. Hero we’d give pointers to, Teach Leander how to woo. I could coach Semiramis, Trojan Helen teach to kiss. You’d teach Dante and Petrarch, Distance Cleopatra’s Mark. Oh, the loves of bygone days Were not up to modern ways!