Sweet Lilly, come again.

We look across the landscape wide,

Where spring bemocks the thought of pain,

And scatters charms with lavish pride;—

The vernal joy is all in vain:

Sweet Lilly, come again,

Sweet Lilly, come again.

The summer breezes lightly lift

The clustered flowers oppressed with rain,

Which fleecy cloud-sieves downward sift,—