Lora Vale

Lora Vale
1796

Calmly feil the alivery moonbeams,
Over hill and over vale,
As with mournful heartee lingered
By the couch of Lora Vale
She was dying, gentle Lor
She was passing like a sigh
From a world of love and beauty
To a fairer home on high

Chorus-
Lora, Lora, still we love thee
Though we see thy form no more:
Yet we know you’ll come to meet us
When we reach that mystic shore

She was almost at the river
When a ilght burst from the sky
And she smiled and faintly whispered,
I am not afraid to die
Gently through the trellised window
Came the west wind’s gentle breath,
As with mournful hearts we lingered
By her lonely couch of death

Chorus
Gently through the trellised window
Came the west winds gentle breath,
But she hreded not its murmur
For she slept the sleep of death
Ah, beyond the slivery moonbeams
Ah, beyond the stars of night
Now she dwells, my darling Lora,
In the home of angels bright