Mother! Could’st thou a nicer find
To be the wife of this thy son?
Nay, there was never such a one.
But ah, she’s such a little tease,
My love, who’s like red cranberries!
The beauty of her eyebrows! Fain
Am I to tell you once again
How like the clouds they seem to be.
They make strange weakness steal o’er me;
Her glances burn me—O the gold