Ere her light sleep is flown.

There, o’er her downy pillow fly,

Wake the sweet maid to life and day;

Breathe on her balmy lip a sigh,

And o’er her bosom play;

And whisper, when her eyes unveil,

That I, since morning’s earliest call,

Have sigh’d her name to ev’ry gale

By the lone waterfall.

GERMAN SONG.