The warm blushing berries with lips of my fair;

I'm doubtful, indeed, if the fruit of the South

Could equal the charm of her ripe little mouth—

'Tis so round and so soft, 'twould be scarcely a crime

All my doubts to dispel in sweet strawberry time!

Light, light is the laughter that carelessly rings,

And sweet is the carol she tenderly sings!

I murmur a story we all of us know—

Her soft dainty dimples, they come and they go;

Her eyelids droop down o'er those sweet little eyes,