Baffled for just a day or two－1
Embarrassed－not afraid－
Encounter in my garden
An unexpected Maid.
She beckons, and the woods start－5
She nods, and all begin－
Surely, such a country
I was never in!
Embarrassed－not afraid－
Encounter in my garden
An unexpected Maid.
She beckons, and the woods start－5
She nods, and all begin－
Surely, such a country
I was never in!
(F.66/J.17)
[3] garden:: garden-party, a party held on a lawn or in a garden (OED 1869).
[5] the woods:: idle people like woods, or woodly, wild, passionate people.
[7] country:: country dancing.
An Analysis of Country Dancing, wherein are displayed all the Figures ever used in Country Dances, in a Way so easy and familiar that Persons of the meanest Capacity may in a short Time acquire (without the Aid of a Master) a complete Knowledge of that rational and polite Amusement. ─ The Literary Panorama (1809)
opened out on the lawn, and Isabella, intercepted in her return to the garden-party ─ Honor O'Hara: A Novel, Volume 2 (1827).