What is the meaning of the song
That rings so clear and loud?
O nightingale amid the grove,
O lark above the cloud.
What says the song, thou joyous thrush,
Up in the walnut-tree?
I love my love because I know
My love loves me

What is the meaning of thy thought,
O maiden fair and young?
There is such pleasure in thine eye,
Such music on thy tongue.
There is such glory on thy face,
What can the meaning be?
I love my love, because I know,
My love loves me.

O happy words at Beauty's feet,
We sing them ere our prime,
And as the early summers pass
And care comes on with time.
Still, be it ours, in care's despite,
to join the chorus free:
I love my love, because I know,
My love loves me.