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Celadon:
If we had found the woodland wishing-well,
What would you wish for?
Amis:
What does youth and prime
And old age wish for, Very Beauty.
Sophron:
Aye!
But what is Very Beauty, seeking which
Sculptor, painter, and poet have differing aims,
Young Anthony still scribbles in his book
Whilst Yves the Sonnet's sequence still pursues,
Yet each is longing for and seekingwhat?
And where to find it, that we all would know.
Gaspard:
Maybe that I can tell you, there are days
When Nature seems so near to us, so kind,
