Dark and Strange
When first Love came, then was I but a boy Swept with delirium of undreamt joy. Now Love comes to a man serious with change Of life and death--and makes the world dark and strange.
John Freeman
When first Love came, then was I but a boy Swept with delirium of undreamt joy. Now Love comes to a man serious with change Of life and death--and makes the world dark and strange.
The speaker looks back at two very different encounters with love. As a boy, he was overwhelmed by his first love—so much so that he describes it as a delirium of joy he hadn’t even imagined possible. Now, as a man, love arrives again, but he is no longer that innocent boy.
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