The Planter's Daughter | |
When night stirred at sea, | |
An the fire brought a crowd in | |
They say that her beauty | |
Was music in mouth | |
And few in the candlelight | 5 |
Thought her too proud, | |
For the house of the planter | |
Is known by the trees. | |
Men that had seen her | |
Drank deep and were silent, | 10 |
The women were speaking | |
Wherever she went - | |
As a bell that is rung | |
Or a wonder told shyly | |
And O she was the Sunday | 15 |
In every week. |