Sweetest Of Maidens, Oh, How Can I Tell

""O lion, grand,         Come over the sand,         And help me now, I pray!         Here's a little lass,         Who wants to pass;"

"A little grey curl from my father's head          I find unburned on the hearth,         And give it a place in my diary here,          Wit"

"Two Yankee maids of simple mien,     And earnest, high endeavour,     Come sailing to the land of France,     To escape the winter weather."

"My bonnie flower, with truest joy     Thy welcome face I see,     The world grows brighter to my eyes,     And summer comes with thee.     My"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"