I’ve been romping with my blue-eyed baby boy.

Though I faint beneath my cares,

And my wheat seems full of tares,

I can still have fullest peace without alloy;

For in the twilight gloam,

I shall hasten to my home,

And be greeted by my blue-eyed baby boy.

Let the morbid fellow groan,

In a melancholy tone,

Seeing only thorns and thistles that annoy;