Excerpt from If I Were King: A Romantic Play in Four Acts

If I were king - ah love, if I were king!

What tributary nations would I bring

To stoop before your sceptre and to swear

Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair.

Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling: -

The stars should be your pearls upon a string,

The world a ruby for your finger ring,

And you should have the sun and moon to wear

If I were king.

Let these wild dreams and wilder words take wing,

Deep in the woods I hear a shepherd sing

A simple ballad to a sylvan air,

Of love that ever finds your face more fair.

I could not give you any godlier thing

If I were king.

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