With never a thought of love or death.

Green apple-boughs met o'er the country lane:

She sang her sweet little song again;

In the meadow beside her red clover grew,

And yellow-winged butterflies o'er it flew;

And here and there moved a woolly back,

For there were the farmer's sheep, alack!

And the bluè-eyed boy, who was told to keep

Out of the clover the frolic sheep,

Under the hay-stack sleeping lay,