An' up to me she came,

I took a start, to hear her there,

Pronouncin' out me name;

"O Corney, there ye are!" siz she

Wid raal familiar smile,

An' thin begar she took me arm,

Most coaxingly the while;

I fluttered like a butterfly,

That's born the first of May,

Wid pride, as if I had the right