Love
Light
Go Down to the meadow at the break of day,
Go down to the meadow son John,
And labor away among the sweetest hay
That ever the sum shine on.”
And John went down
to the meadow-land,
But he saw not the clover sweet,
And the sky was dun, for he missed the sun,
Though it reddened his brow with heat.
He missed the sun
and he missed the light—
And the world seemed upside down
Till he caught the sight of a smile so bright
And a linsey-woolsey gown;
Till he caught the
sight of a golden head,
And a fair and merry face,
When so bright and round, with a sudden bound
The sun went up in it’s place,
The sun went up
and the light came down,
And the field was all aglow
While the heart kept time to the merry rhyme
Of the respects’ song below.
And Mary laughed
at her lover’s mood,
As she turned from his caress,
Though the south winds blow from her lips so true,
The sweet little answer, “Yes”
“Oh wherefore so
glad ” said former Gray;
“Oh, who before so glad son John?
For the storm today spotted the sweetest hay
That ever the sun shone on.”
But John knew
nothing of the rain of flood,
And nothing of ruined hay --
For the flowers of joy to the farmer’s boy
Were scattered along the way.
And merry the
wedding bells rang out
And merry the pipers did play.
At the golden dawn of the happy morn
That ushered the marriage
Title: Love Light
Author: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Date: 1866- 1870
Media: One column newspaper article, glued to Page 194 of the Ledger of
Captain W. B. Blair
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