Wednesday, April 1, 2020

April's Fool / John McClure


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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