I have heard the mavis singing
Its love-song to the morn;
I've seen the dew-drop clinging
To the rose just newly born.


Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Charles Jefferys Quotes

I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.

I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.

I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.

I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.