To long for the healthful Monmouth meads, the shores of the breezy bay;

And often the scenes and mates he knew in boyhood he sought again,

And roamed through the well-known woods, and lay in the grass where he once had lain.

III.

Ladies, in silks and laces,

Lunching with lips agleam,

Know you aught of the places

Yielding such fruit and cream?

South from your harbor-islands

Glisten the Monmouth hills;