Only one day while, in an innocent mood,

Moppin' his brow (cos 'twas a trifle sweaty)

With a blue kerchief—lo, he spies a white un

Coyly responding.

Oh, delightsome Love! Not a jot do you care

For the restrictions set on human inter-

Course by cold-blooded social refiners;

Nor do I, neither.

Day by day, peepin' fro' behind the bean-sticks,

Willum observed that scrap o' white a-wavin',