"Laura Lee"

How like a desert isle
 Earth seems to me
Robbed of thy sunny smile
 Sweet Laura Lee

Far from all pleasures borne
     pleasure torn
 Sad and alone
How doth my spirit mourn
 When thou art gone

Gone is thy merry face
 Far from my side
Leaving each cherished place
 Cheerless and void

Why has thy merry face
 Gone from my side
 Leaving each cherishd place
 Cheerless and void
Gone is the happy dream
 Blended with thee
Gone like a flitting beam
 Sweet Laura Lee