Volume 153 — HERBS OF GRACE.
Reading edition
VIII.
SOUTHERNWOOD.
Some are for Camphor to put with their dresses, "Lay Russia-leather between 'em," say some; Some are for Lavender sprinkled in presses, Some are for Woodruff, that moths may not come; I am for Southernwood, Southernwood, Southernwood (Gardy-robe called, they do say, by the French), Whisper of summertime, summertime, summertime, Southernwood, laid wi' the clothes of a wench. Some are for Violets, some are for Roses, Some for Peniriall, some for Bee Balm, When they go church-along carrying posies (Smell 'em and glance at the lads in the psalm); I am for Southernwood, Southernwood, Southernwood (Lad's Love 'tis called by the home-folk hereby), All in the summertime, summertime, summertime— Lad's Love 'tis called, and for lad's love am I. W.B.