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How sweet I roamed fron field to field,
    And tasted all the snmmer's pride,
'Till I the Prince of Love beheld,
    Who in the sunny beams did glide!
 
He show'd me lilies for my hair,
    And blushing roses for my brow;
He led me through his gardens fair,
    Where all his golden pleasures grow.

With sweet May dews my wings were wet,
    And Phoebus fired my vocal rage;
He caught me in his silken net,
    And shut me in his golden cage.

He loves to sit and hear me sing,
    Then, laughiug, sports and plays with me;
Then stretches out my golden wing,
    And mocks my loss of liberty.