He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellation of Heaven + 

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young + 

And weep because I know all things now: + 

I have been a hazel tree and they hung + 

The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough + 

Among my leaves in times out of mind: + 

I became a rush that horses tread: + 

I became a man, a hater of the wind, + 

Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head + 

Would not lie on the breast or his lips on the hair + 

Of the woman that he loves, until he dies. + 

O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air, + 

Must I endure your amorous cries? + 