The line Golden in the heydays of his eyes means the best and brightest period of life Golden suggests sunlight happiness and youth It was the season of joy when everything looked shining and full of hope The poet feels that in the eyes of Time those were the most beautiful days When Dylan Thomas says And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns he imagines himself as a little prince in his own world The wagons barns and apple orchards around Fern Hill Farm were his kingdom The farm animals the foxes and the birds were his subjects and friends He was happy innocent and proud Through these lines Dylan Thomas paints a picture of childhood as a time of freedom and delight Time acts like a guardian It blesses him with light love and laughter His life at Fern Hill becomes a golden memory that stays with him forever