Words, Maud Lindsay
Music, Elsie A. Merriman
Allegretto
The hawthorn's white, the sun is bright, And blue the cloud-less
sky; . And not a bird that sings in spring Is
hap-pi-er than I, than I, Is hap-pi-er than I. . .
THE QUEST FOR THE NIGHTINGALE[6]
Oh, who would go to fairyland?
The moon is shining bright, oh,
And who would go to fairyland
Upon a summer's night, oh!
Across a field of fragrant fern
All sparkling with the dew, oh!
Come trip it light to fairyland
And I will go with you, oh!
To fairyland, to fairyland,
Who seeks may find the way, oh,
And we shall see the fairies dance
Before the break of day, oh!