Bonnie Mary of Argyle

Bonnie Mary of Argyle - Josef Locke

I have heard the Mavis singing

His love song to the moon

I have seen the dewdrop clinging

To the rose just nearly born

But a sweeter song has cheered me

At the evening's gentle close

And I've seen an eye still brighter

Than the dewdrop on the rose

'Was the voice my gentle Mary

And thine artless winning smile

That made this world an Eden

Bonnie Mary of Argyle

Those the voice may lose its sweetness

Thine eye it's brightness too

Then they step may lack it's fleetness

And their hair it's sunny hue

Still to me wilt thou be dearer

Than all the world shall own

I have loved thee for their beauty

But not for that alone

I have watched their heart dear Mary

And its goodness was the wile

That has made thee mine forever

Bonnie Mary of Argyle