Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 40 1834/The Rio Verde Song

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3015127Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 40 1834 — The Rio Verde Song1834Felicia Hemans

The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 40, Pages 26-27

SONGS OF SPAIN.

BY MRS. HEMANS.

I.
The Rio Verde Song.*^[1]

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 waters,
    So crimson'd of yore,
Love, Death, and Sorrow
    Know the green shore.
Thou should'st have Echoes
    For Grief's deepest tone.—
Flow, Rio Verde!
    Softly flow on!

↑ * The name of the Rio Verde (the "Gentle River" of Percy's ballad) will be familiar to every Spanish reader, as associated in song and story with the old romantic wars of the Peninsula.

[1] * The name of the Rio Verde (the "Gentle River" of Percy's ballad) will be familiar to every Spanish reader, as associated in song and story with the old romantic wars of the Peninsula.

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