To be or not to be， that is the question

    To justify¹ the ways of God to men

    There was a time when meadow grove² and stream

    The dropping of the daylight in the west

    Otters³ below and moorhens on the top

    Had fallen in Lyonesse about their Lord.

    There was a time when moorhens on the top

    To justify the daylight in the west，

    To be or not to be about their Lord

    Had fallen in Lyonesse from God to men；

    Otters below and meadow grove and stream，

    The dropping of the day， that is the question.

    A time when Lyonesse and grove and stream

    To be the daylight in the west on top

    When meadow otters fallen about their Lord

    To justify the moorhens is the question

    Or not to be the dropping God to men

    There was below the ways that is a time.

    To be in Lyonesse， that is the question

    To justify the otters， is the question

    The dropping of the meadows， is the question

    I do not know the answer to the question

    There was a time when moorhens in the west

    There was a time when daylight on the top

    There was a time when God was not a question

    There was a time when poets

    Then I came