See you here a soft blue ee,

O! beware—O! beware;

For it melteth but to be

For a snare—for a snare.

I have loved a gentle girl;

How I loved—how I loved—

Witness it, my bosom’s whirl

When she moved—when she moved;

Life, soul, feeling, all sincere,

Bound up in her—bound up in her;