April's Fool
I loved a lady once —
Tweedle-dum, tweedle-di!
Ah, what a merry dunce
In the mad world was I.
Love was a fairyland.
Life was to me
All playing of fiddles
And minstrelsy.
All the mad world was fair,
All the trees green,
I was a jester there
To a gay queen.
I was a knight-at-arms,
I was a king,
I would brave death for her,
Caper or sing.
Tweedle-dum, tweedle-di!
What a mad fool was I!
~~
John McClure (1893-1956)
from Airs and Ballads, 1918
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
John McClure biography
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