Wildwood Flower

I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair

With the roses so red and the lilies so fair

And the myrtles so bright with emerald dew

The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue

He told me he loved me and called me his flower

That blossomed for him all the brighter each hour

Though my heart is now breaking, he never shall know

That his name makes me tremble, my pale cheeks to

glow

I'll sing and I'll dance and my laugh shall be gay

I'll charm every heart and the crowd I will away

I'll live you to see him regret the dark hour

When he won and neglected this frail wildwood flower

I'll think of him never, I'll be wild and gay

I'll cease this wild weeping, drive sorrow away

But I wake from my dreaming, my idol was clay

My visions of love have all vanished away