Anonymous

“ Warbling birds the spring proclaiming,
carol sweet th' enlivening strain,
They forsake their leafy dwelling,
to secure the golden grain
See, content the humble gleaners,
take the scatter'd ears that fall,
Nature all her children viewing,
kindly bounteous cares for all. ”

“ The youth, whose love was aw'd with fear,
Grew raptur'd such sweet sounds to hear,
Straight to the church we went;
How wise we all by marriage grow,
Tho' foolish once, yet now I know,
I know what Damon meant, etc. ”

“ I sought the fields of barley,
And strive to win from me away,
the heart of winsome Charley;
But, ah! how vain, they cannot gain
his love by all their parley,
And now they see, he wooes but me,
my bonny, bonny Charley. O my, etc. ”