The green fields below him—the blue sky above,
That he sang, and he sang, and forever sang he:
I love my Love, and my Love loves me."
Love songs bubbled from the mellow throats of mocking-birds and bobolinks; dove cooed love to dove; and I think the maiden monkey, fair "Juliet" of the House of Orang-outang, waited on her cocoanut balcony for the coming of her "Romeo," and thus plaintively sang:
JULIET.
(Sung to the air of My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon.)
"My sweetheart's the lovely baboon,