INSIDE my father's close, (Fly away O my heart away!) Sweet apple-blossom blows So sweet. Three kings' daughters fair, (Fly away O my heart away!) They lie below it there So sweet. 'Ah!' says the eldest one, (Fly away O my heart away!) I think the day's begun So sweet.' 'Ah!' says the second one, (Fly away O my heart away!) 'Far off I hear the drum So sweet.' 'Ah!' says the youngest one, (Fly away O my heart away!) 'It's my true love, my own, So sweet. 'Oh! if he fight and win,' (Fly away O my heart away!) 'I keep my love for him, So sweet: Oh! let him lose or win, He hath it still complete.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661 by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN SOME SWEET DAY by LEWIS J. BATES TO A LADY WHO HAD LOST A RELATIVE by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD HANDS: THE DOCTOR by KATE M. CHIDESTER SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 7 by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |