Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,
Happy Love is come to woo
Thee and woo thy girlish ways —
The zone that doth become thee fair,
The snood upon thy yellow hair,
When thou hast heard his name upon
The bugles of the cherubim[10]
Begin thou softly to unzone,
Thy girlish bosom unto him
And softly to undo the snood
That is the sign of maidenhood.