We rested in the garden bower;

While sweetly shone the evening sun,

In his departing hour.

"We told o'er all that we had done,—

Our rambles by the swift brook's side,

Far as the willow-skirted pool,

Where two fair swans together glide.

"We talked of change, of winter gone,

Of green leaves on the hawthorn spray,

Of birds that build their nests and sing,