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Lyrics of Love and Laughter Oh, once loved, sluggish, darkling stream, For me no more, thy waters swell, Thy music now the engines' scream, Thy fragrance now the factory's smell; Too near for me the clanging bell; A false light in the water shines While Solitude lists to her kneel,- Arcadia has trolley lines. Thy wooded lanes with shade and gleam Where bloomed the fragrant asphodel, Now bleak commercially teem With signs "To Let," "To Buy," "To Sell." And Commerce holds them fierce and fell; With vulgar sport she now combines Sweet Nature's piping voice to quell. Arcadia has trolley lines. L'ENVOI Oh, awful Power whose works repel The marvel of the earth's designs,- I'll hie me otherwise to dwell, Arcadia has trolley lines. 117