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First Line: Flow, rio verde!
Last Line: Softly flow on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rio Verde (river), Spain


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 crimsoned 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!





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