4309040The Melodist — Sweet Laura of the ValeAnonymous
Sweet Laura of the Vale.
With hat of straw and russet gown, Her ringlets hung adown, adown, And wanton’d in the gale; With honest heart and simple mein, How blest an humble village-queen, Sweet Laura of the Vale! Sing, dawn, adown.
By greatness lur’d she sought the town, Her caution all adown, adown, And hapless is the tale; Deceiv’d and lost, a fatal proof That peace from error stands aloof, Died Laura of the Vale.Sing, &c.