Wine Tips

A cup of hot tea, some apple and cheese
out the back door quick as you please
headed away out beyond the back fence
heeding some call and hurrying hence

Through the deep wood and cross the cool rill
down through the glen and over the hill
up through the high meadow all abuzz with bees
under the shade of an ancient oak tree

there he unpacks his old bag with great care
laying his paints here, his canvases there
a bottle of wine, a thin loaf of bread
a jar of green olives and a blanket to spread

There in the shade of that grand ancient tree
a girl young and fair he has come far to see
she waits there for him though her father forbade
to pose for his paintings and make love in the shade.