A beautiful young woman hides away, wanting nothing to do with men; and founds a women's university, where no man can enter. But as the master Tennyson writes, 'Life is brief but love is long'; love will find a way; and the prince to whom the young woman was betrothed in infancy disguises himself into a woman and enters the premises...This classic narrative poem continues to enchant generation after generation of listeners and it is no wonder why: 'Better not be at all than not be noble.'