Helena lonesome in the country and pregnant. After being harrassed by John La Farge.
Lyrics below:

Lyrics by Richard Watson Gilder (edited by Dan McNay)
Music by Dan McNay

O father’s gone to market town: he was up before the day
And Jamie’s after robins and the man is making hay
And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill
While mother from the farm-house door is calling with a will

Molly O Molly
The cows are in the corn
Oh where is Molly?

From all the misty morning air there comes a summer sound
A murmur as from waters from skies and trees and ground
The birds they sing upon the wing the pigeons bill and coo
And over hill and hollow rings again the loud hallow

Richard O Richard
The cows are in the corn
Oh where is Richard?

Above the trees the nonet bees swarm with buzz and boom
And in the field and garden a hundred flowers bloom
Within the farmer’s meadow a brown eyed daisy blows
And down at the edge of the hollow a red and thorny rose

But Richard o Richard
The cows are in the corn
Oh where’s Richard?

How strange at such a time of day the mill should cease its clatter
The farmers wife is listening now and wonders whats the matter
While singing up the hollow goes the dusty mill boy rover
And in his jacket button hole he wears a four leaf clover

Molly O  Molly
The cows are in the corn
Oh where’s Molly?