6.13.2026 – tell me where all

then tell me where all
past years are and teach me to
hear mermaids singing

Go and catch a falling star;
Get with child a mandrake root;
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil’s foot;
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging;
And find
What wind
Serves t’advance an honest mind.

Song by John Donne as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1918 (1939 edition) but first published the first edition of Donne’s collected poems in 1633.

Back to 1633 when the poem Song was first printed.

Back to 1989 when I finally got to go to the beach by myself for the first time with the lady.

Tell me where all past years are.