New Zealand Minstrelsy

Answer to the Lover’s Invitation

Answer to the Lover’s Invitation.

Tune

Kelvin Grove.”

To me ye’re truly kind, dearest laddie, O,
To bear me thus in mind, dearest laddie, O;
If truth may be confess’d, on the heart that ’s in my breast,
In love thou art impress’d, my dearest laddie, O.

Prosperity; Liberty; Love’Tis not thy garden rare, dearest laddie, O,
Nor yet thy fields so fair, dearest laddie, O,
That can avail with me; for, as love is ever free,
’Tis thine that conquers me, my dearest laddie, O.

So thou may’st make me thine, dearest laddie, O,
In truth and love to join, dearest laddie, O;
SocietyMy hand I’ll thee bestow, though my kindred should say no,
And with thee I shall go, my dearest laddie, O.