• Masque for a Masque -

    I. Once upon a time,

    When the Celtic bards sang their lines.

    There lived a young maid named Evangeline.



    She dreamed of a man in hemlocks and gold,

    V. Like the Princes of Hellas in their palaces old.

    Gaius in town wore such handsome dress,

    At this Evangeline became distressed.



    For her courage to dream killed Gaius' identity,

    Now ever she laments the golden unreality.