• Heedless she strayed from note to note,
      A maid, scarce knowing that she sang;
    The dainty accents from her throat
      In undulations lightly rang.

    She sang in laughing rhythms sweet;
      A bird of spring was in her voice;
    Till, on through measures deft and fleet,
      She caught the ditty of her choice.

    A song of love, in words of...