- Dear
Marian,
- Birdies sing
more freely;
- Fresher
is the morning dew.
- Flowers
do smell much more sweetly
- Because
I love you.
- So
goodbye
to sad emptiness;
- And
fare thee well to loneliness
- Because
I love you.
-
- Who
is free-er than the wild bird?
- Sweeter than the May?
- Who
is fresher than the morning?
- Brighter than the day?
- It
is you, my
dear
Marian,
- My
heart I truly give to you,
- For
I love you true.
