Come, have a drink with me –
Care can swallow love,
And tasks devour time
Enough of cups of tea!
Your eyes, ever more sublime,
Dancing bright above
A brown and friendly beer
Will soon meet mine, my dear
Intoxicatingly.
That I do love you darling so,
Oh, know;
That I so ache that I may take...
The last pear plucked
The evening primrose gone –
What now may fate deduct...
