How Sweet I Roamed

Lyrics

[Verse 1] How sweet I roamed from field to field Tasted all the summer's pride 'Til I, the prince of love, beheld Who in the sunny beams did glide [Verse 2] He showed me lilies for my hair And blushing roses for my brow He led me through his garden's fair Where all his golden pleasures grow [Verse 3] With sweet May dews my wings were wet And Phoebus fired my vocal rage He caught me in his silken net And shut me in his golden cagе [Verse 4] He loves to sit and hear mе sing Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing And mocks my loss of liberty