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