Down By The Salley Gardens - W.B.Yeats

Yeats  said he wrote this poem based a half-remembered song he heard an old lady sing in Sligo when he was a child. The song was put to music again in Scotland in the 1930s and appears in Scottish music books as a traditional song. The 'modern' version probably bears no musical resemblance to the original but it remains lovely as exemplified HERE
Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.