Hi Ana - thanks for the commendation! It is from the Midsummer Cushion,the Carcanet edition,and is the version Shimrod above has suggested,but I have modified it a little,not consciously for the most part,but just by singing it.I know a lot of people like this song,and sing it too - which is great.This is what I sing;

Sweet the pleasures I do find
Lovely Jessie near thee
When every green with flowers is lined
And linnets sing to cheer thee
Then my love so fair and kind
Its heaven to be near thee
Heaven to be near thee
Heaven to be near thee

Though its not the charms of spring
Can add a charm to cheer me
When every pleasure's took to wing
And left the pastures dreary
When every bird's forgot to sing
Its heaven while I'm near thee

Left to winter's frost and snow
Where storms descend severely
Left with birds to pick the sloe
Left with them to cheer me
Still,while life's red tide shall flow
Heaven would be near thee

Banished to some barren isle
Where famine scowls severely
Jessie blest with thee the while
Til life was left to cheer me
Still on fate with thee I'd smile
For heaven would be near thee

Gordon