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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THOSE DAYS, by FRANK WILMOT Poet's Biography
First Line: The world was a wild and lonely place
Last Line: And filled the world with tales.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Past
First Line: The world was a wild and lonely place
Last Line: And filled the world with tales.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Past
THE world was a wild and lonely place
In olden times, my dear;
All sorts of wonders came to pass
And nobody was near.
A wing-helmed, shouting Viking
Strode up the pebbled shore,
Where never the voice of an out-world man
Had stirred the deeps before.
A tongueless dwarf moaned in the wood;
His little wife, too, was dumb;
Nor even the priests of the mountain folk
Could tell whence they had come.
Though sagas and strange legendry
Are piled at the heart of man,
The world was wonderfuller yet
Before the songs began!
Witches and knights and whimsical folk
Peopling the starry gales
Alighted gently, one by one,
And filled the world with tales.
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