Broadside ballad entitled 'Belle Brandon, The Beauty of the Valley'

Transcription

BELLE BRANDON,

The Beauty of the Valley.

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Tune-Original.

Near a tree by the margin of a woodland,
Whose green and leafy boughs sweep the ground,
With a path leading to it o'er the prairie,
When silence hung her night garb around.
There often I have wandered in the evening,
When the summer winds are fragrant on the lea,
There I saw the little beauty of the valley,
And we met 'neath the old arbour tree.
REPEAT.
There I saw the darling beauty of the valley,
And we met 'neath the old arbour tree.

My beauty was a birdling of the mountain,
in freedom she sported on her wing,
And they said the life-current of the red man
tinged her veins from a far distant spring.
She loved her humble dwelling on the prairie,
And her guileless happy heart clung to me,
For I loved the little beauty of the valley,
And we both loved the old arbour tree.
For I loved the little, &c.

On the trunk of an aged tree I carved them,
Our names on the sturdy form remain,
But I now repair in sorrow to its shelter,
And murmur to the wild wind my pain.
Oh, I sat there, in solitude repining,
For the beauty dream that night brought me,
Death has wed the little beauty of the valley,
And she sleeps 'neath the old arbour tree.
Death has wed, &c.

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Saturday Morning, Oct. 7, 1865.

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