“I’ll dress you like a Goldfinch, or like a Peacock gay;
So if you’ll have me, Jenny, let us appoint the day.”
Jenny blushed behind her fan, and thus declared her mind,
“Then let it be to-morrow, Bob; I take your offer kind.
“Cherry pie is very good! so is currant-wine!
But I will wear my brown gown, and never dress too fine.”
Robin rose up early, at the break of day;
He flew to Jenny Wren’s house, to sing a roundelay.
He met Cock and Hen, and bade the Cock declare,
This was his wedding-day with Jenny Wren the fair.
The Cock then blew his horn, to let the neighbors know,
This was Robin’s wedding-day, and they might see the show.
And first came Parson Rook, with his spectacles and band;
And one of Mother Goose’s books, he held within his hand.
Then follow’d him the Lark, for he could sweetly sing,
And he was to be clerk at Cock Robin’s wedding.
He sung of Robin’s love for little Jenny Wren;
And when he came unto the end, then he began again.
