@edgarblythe,
I located it, Mark, but thank you for it too.
Here's a poem by the author, Thomas Hardy:
Best Poem of Thomas Hardy
"I Said To Love"
I said to Love,
"It is not now as in old days
When men adored thee and thy ways
All else above;
Named thee the Boy, the Bright, the One
Who spread a heaven beneath the sun,"
I said to Love.
and it's this lady's birthday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNapH-fSUpQ