And thought to leave her far away behind;

But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;

She is so constant to me, and so kind:
I would deceive her
And so leave her,

But ah! she is so constant and so kind.

"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,

I sat a-weeping: in the whole world. wide

There was no one to ask me why I wept,

And so I kept

Brimming the water-lily cups with tears Cold as my fears.

"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,

I sat a-weeping: what enamour'd bride, Cheated by shadowy wooer from the clouds,

But hides and shrouds

Beneath dark palm trees by a river side?

"And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revellers: the rills

Bacchus, young Bacchus! good or ill betide,

We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide:

Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our wild minstrelsy!'

"Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs! whence came ye!

hue

why left

Your nuts in oak-tree cleft?

'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree; For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,

And cold mushrooms;

For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth;

Great God of breathless cups and chirping mirth!

Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our mad minstrelsy!'

"Over wide streams and mountains great

we went,

And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent,
Onward the tiger and the leopard pants,
With Asian elephants:
Onward these myriads with song and
dance,

With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians' prance,