The Rio Verde Song

Flow, Rio Verde!
In melody flow;
Win her that weepeth
To slumber from woe;
Bid thy wave’s music
Roll through her dreams--
Grief ever loveth
The kind voice of streams.

Bear her lone spirit
Afar on the sound
Back to her childhood,
Her life’s fairy ground;
Pass like the whisper
Of love that is gone--
Flow, Rio Verde!
Softly flow on!

Dark glassy water
So crimson’d of yore!
Love, death, and sorrow
Know thy green shore.
Thou shouldst have echoes
For grief’s deepest tone--
Flow, Rio Verde!
Softly flow on!