Your love in a cottage is hungry,  
  Your vine is a nest for flies-  
  Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,  
  And simplicity talks of pies!  
  You lie down to your shady slumber  
  And wake with a bug in your ear,  
  And your damsel that walks in the morning  
  Is shod like a mountaineer.
Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis... (ed. 1832)























