According to one of Sandy Robertson's article on this site, it was in at least the first draft of the screenplay for Neverland around the early Eighties.
> Right you are. The couplet was actually written by Ross A.
> Macdonald, who you'll note Jim acclaims in his first blog
> entry of September 5, 2007 as "America's greatest
> detective novelist of all time." In his spare time, he
> wrote poetry for newspapers, and this was one of the
> sonnets he churned out.
>
> Jim first re-used it in 1972 as "the Call of the
> Rhinegold," apparently printed on one of the first pages
> of the script for Rhinegold, as seen on this site.
> It has also been used (to great effect) as the opening
> track of the Pandora's Box album Original Sin
> (where I assume it was mistakenly credited to Jim) and as
> the intro to one of the DOTV demos of "Total
> Eclipse" on Smeg's site.
>
> > nice choice. not Jim though.
> >
> > >
> > > If light were dark and dark were light
> > > The moon a black hole in the blaze of night
> > > A raven's wing as bright as tin
> > > Then you, my love
> > > Would be darker than sin
> > >
> > >
> > >
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