Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Rio Verde | | The Rio Verde Song | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | FLOW, Rio Verde! | |
| In melody flow; | |
| Win her that weepeth | |
| To slumber from woe; | |
| Bid thy waves’ music | 5 |
| Roll through her dreams,— | |
| Grief ever loveth | |
| The kind voice of streams. | |
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| Bear her lone spirit | |
| Afar on the sound | 10 |
| Back to her childhood, | |
| Her life’s fairy ground; | |
| Pass like the whisper | |
| Of love that is gone,— | |
| Flow, Rio Verde! | 15 |
| Softly flow on! | |
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| Dark glassy water | |
| So crimsoned of yore! | |
| Love, death, and sorrow | |
| Know thy green shore. | 20 |
| Thou shouldst have echoes | |
| For grief’s deepest tone,— | |
| Flow, Rio Verde! | |
| Softly flow on! | | | | |
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