Heart to heart, and hand to hand,
You followed Nature’s sweet command,
Roaming lovingly through the land,
Nor sighed for a Diamond Wedding.
So have we read, in classic Ovid,
How Hero watched for her belovéd,
Impassioned youth, Leander.
She was the fairest of the fair,
And wrapt him round with her golden hair,
Whenever he landed cold and bare,