W.B. Yeats
1. Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet,
She passed the salley gardens with little snowwhite feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree,
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
2. In af field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.
1/1: sally = piletræ. 2/3: weir = dæmning.
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