From the sheet music at Johns Hopkins University:


THE WOOD-PECKER
Words by Thomas Moore; music, Michael Kelly. n.d.

[1] I knew by the smoke, that so gracefully curl'd
Above the green elms, that a cottage was near,
And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world,
A heart that was humble might hope for it here!
The heart that was humble might hope for it here!"

[CHORUS] Ev'ry leaf was at rest
And I heard not a sound
But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree.
Ev'ry leaf was at rest,
And I heard not a sound;
Ev'ry leaf was at rest,
And I heard not a sound
But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree,
But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree,
But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree.

[2] And "Here in this lone little wood," I exclaim'd,
"With a maid who was lovely to soul and to eye,
Who would blush when I prais'd her, and weep when I blam'd,
How blest could I live, and how calm could I die!
How blest could I live, and how calm could I die!

[3] By the shade of yon sumach, whose red berry dips
In the gush of the fountain how sweet to recline,
And to know that I sigh'd upon innocent lips,
Which had never been sigh'd on by any but mine!
Which had never been sigh'd on by any but mine!


[The sheet music bears no date, but some cataloguers have guessed around 1820. The words were published as a poem called "Ballad Stanzas" in Moore's Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems in 1806. Other composers set it to music also.]