New way of Johnny's grey-breeks (1)/Johnny's Grey-Breeks
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JOHNNY’S GREY-BREEKS.
THE smiling Spring again appears,
with all the beauties of her strain,
Love soon of her arrival hears,
and flies to wound the gentle swain.
How gay does nature now appear!
the lambkins frisking o’er the plain,
Sweet feath'red songsters now we hear,
while Jeany seeks her gentle swain.
Ye nymphs now lead me thro’ the groves,
thro’ which your streams in silence mourn,
There with my Johnny let me rove,
till once his fleecy flock return.
Young Johnny he’s my gentle swain,
that sweetly pipes along the mead,
So soon's his lambkins hear his strain,
with eager steps return in speed.
The flocks now all in sportive play,
came frisking round the piping swain;
But fearful of too long delay,
came bleating to the dams again.
’Tis down in yon green myrtle grove,
in choir the feath’red songsters sing,
And sweet warble through their love,
to welcome the returning spring.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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