Away To The Forest (Poem into Song) Lyrics by Charles Fenno Hoffman

Song: Away To The Forest
Lyrics: Charles Fenno Hoffman
Music: AI

[Verse1]
A WAY to the forest,
away, love, away!
My foam-champing courser reproves thy delay,
And the brooks are all calling, Away, love, away!
Away to the forest, my own love, with me!
Away where thro' checker'd glade sports the wind free,
Where in the bosky dell
Watching young leaflets swell,
Spring on each floral bell,
Counteth for thee,
Away to the forest, away!
[Verse2]
Away to the forest,
away, love, away!
Each breath of the morning reproves thy delay;
Each shadow retiring beckons away!
Hark! how the blue-bird's throat carolling o'er us
Chimes with the thrush's note floating before us!
Away then, my gentle one,
Thy voice is miss'd alone.
Away — let love's whisper'd tone.
Swell the bright chorus,
Away to the forest, away!