Damon was sitting in the grove
With Phyllis, and protesting love;
And she was listening; but no word
Of all he loudly swore she heard.
How! Was she deaf then? No, not she,
Phyllis was quite the contrary.
Tapping his elbow, she said, ‘ Hush!
O what a darling of a thrush!
I think he never sang so well
As now, below us, in the dell.’