Here, where the whitest blossoms blow,

The reddest and ripest berries grow.

“Gather the cones which lie concealed,

With their vines your foreheads wreathing;

The strawberry-field its sweets shall yield

While the western winds are breathing.

Softly the rivulet’s ripples flow;

Dark is the grove that lovers know;

Here, where the whitest blossoms blow,

The reddest and ripest berries grow.