When you sang your inconsequent rhymes

Sprung from a careless fountain:

"He met her on the mountain,

He gave her a horn to blow,

And the very last words he said to her

Were, 'Go 'long, Eliza, go.'"

Foolish,—but life was all,

And under the skilful fingers

Contours came at your call—

Art grows and time lingers;—