The
daisy button tipped wi' dew Green like the grass was sleeping
On every thing 'neath heaven blue In moonlight dew was
weeping
In dark wood sung the Nightingale The moon shone round
above me
My arms were clasped round Mary Gale My dearest do you
love me
Her head a woodbine wet wi' dew Held in the moonlight
sleeping
And two in one together grew Wi' daisy buds a weeping
O' Mary Gale sweet Mary Gale How round and bright above
thee
The moon looks down on grassy vale My dearest can you
love me
How sweet the moonlight sleeps and still Firdale and
hedge row brere
The mole wharps mound and distant hill Is moonlight
every where
The totter grasses pendalums Are still as night above me
The bees are gone and nothing hums My dearest do you
love me
The moonlight sleeps o'er wood and wall Sweet Mary While
you'r nigh me
Can any charm O' courtship fail And any joy pass by me
The gossamer all wet wi' dew Hung on the brere above me
She leaned her cheek and said ‘I do’ And ever mean to
love thee
LP II 775
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There's nothing more beautiful in the world, Roger, than John Clare's poetry. :)
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