Nor once looked up, as who should say:

“It is a seemly man.”

For many lads went wooing aye

Across the fields to Anne.

The oaks, they have a wiser look;

Mayhap they whispered to the brook:

“The world by him shall yet be shook,

It is in nature’s plan;

Though now he fleets like any rook

Across the fields to Anne.”