Hommage à l'Enfance

Having come of age in a Paris Very different than the one you see today, Wooden swords were common while at play In every street and park, on every terrace. "Un pour tous et tous pour un," you'd hear, Aye - "all for one and one for all," we cried; I think that Dumas' heart would swell with pride To see his legacy portrayed so sharp and clear By children, drawn so deeply into Porthos' Pathos and his ethos and his Life, And Aramis, who lived for sword and strife, And to the very boldness which was Athos. But to be d'Artagnan once more - and seven - And in le Vert Galant - this would be Heaven.