TO MARY ANN B****
1
Along the pleasant banks of Nene
Arise my love and walk with me
And we'll enjoy the morning scene
Where all is beautiful like thee
The river flooded to the brim
The yellow trees the uplands grey
That in the light of heaven swim
Like rocks and vallies far away
2
Come Mary Ann and walk with me
Along the pleasant banks of Nene
The mist is gone and every tree
In mornings light is plainly seen
Sweet is the breath of morning jaunts
While bright dew lies on every place
The bee is on its wild flower haunts
The rose is in thy bonny face
3
The east is hung with golden gems
In crimson red and saphire blue
In gold and crystal fringed hems
The spiders lace is hung with dew
On each thorn branch and flowery stem
As if to decorate the place
For health and nature dwells with them
And shows its bloom upon thy face
4
Then walk with me sweet Mary Ann
And in the meadows meet the morn
Where nature lives as it began
And all her joys are newly born
Then Mary come and make more dear
The scene—and Eden it will be
When every gale thy voice will hear
And every vale be full of thee
