Flowers Of The Heath

The violet and the primrose too Beneath a sheltering thorny bough In bright and lively colours blow And cast sweet fragrance round. Where beds of thyme in clusters lay The heath rose opens its eyes in May And cowslips, too, their sweets display Upon the heathy ground.

2. Here shepherds meet at close of day To chant their merry roundelay And chase unhappy thought away No discord here is found. Harmonious notes make mountains ring When minstrels strike the trembling string And merry shepherds dance and sing Upon the heathy ground.