LURIANA LURALEE

LYRICS

• Come out and climb the garden-path, 
  Luriana Lurilee, 
  The China rose is all abloom 
  And buzzing with the yellow bee 
  We’ll swing you on the cedar-bough, 
  Luriana Lurilee.

  I wonder if it seems to you 
  Luriana Lurilee 
  That all the lives we ever lived 
  And all the lives to be, 
  Are full of trees and waving leaves, 
  Luriana Lurilee.

  How long it seems since you and I, 
  Luriana Lurilee.
  Roamed in the forest where our kind 
  Had just begun to be,
  And laughed & chattered in the flowers, 
  Luriana Lurilee.

  How long since you and I went out, 
  Luriana Lurilee
  To see the kings go riding by 
  Over lawn and daisylea,
  With their palm-sheaves and cedar-leaves 
  Luriana Lurilee.

  Swing, swing on the cedar bough! 
  Luriana Lurilee
  Till you sleep in a bramble-heap 
  Or under the gloomy churchyard-tree,
  And then fly back to swing on a bough, 
  Luriana Lurilee.

  Whitsuntide 1899
  Charles Isac [sic] Elton