Which fair May sang to tease

Mr. Murphy, though it she'll not own.

"Oh, my beautiful flow'ret has faded,

Is drooping its once joyous head;

For the bee with its sweetness has laded

His wings and away with it fled.

And the fierce, cruel wind, it hath broken

The stem which the bright blossom fed;

While the leaves by their sad looks have spoken

Their grief for the kind parent dead.