Serenade
from Tenyson's "Maud"
Set to Music by Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870)
Poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Origin : https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/066/025
The noise continued, unabated.
[...]
'Com in–to the gar–den, Maud!'
'For the black bat–ter nah–ett hath–er–florn!'
'Com in–to the gar–den, Maud!'
'I am he–ar at ther gate alorn!'
The Luck Stone. 6 Back at School
He was roused from his thoughts by the sound of a light footstep on the balcony outside. [...]
'She is coming, my own, my sweet!
Were it never so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed'
whispered Archibald's soul, or words to that effect.
Mr Mulliner Speaking. 1 The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
Love had tapped a deep vein of poetry in him and he was trying to remember how that 'Come into the garden, Maud' thing went.
Money in the Bank, Chapter 21
This reference comes from the Annotations compiled in Madame Eulalie's site