Simon,
I was thinking those same words you quoted from the song, Nature Boy, sung by Nat King Cole, and later by Gracie Slick of the Great Society, The Jeferson Airplane, and the Jeferson Starship, and they are burned in my brain, and they go like this here:
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
He wandered very far, very far
o'er land and sea
Then one day
One magic day he came my way
We talked of many things
Fools and kings
And this he said to me
Greatest thing, you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return