====== #136 - Bonnie Eloise ======
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  *Composer:
    *++John Rogers Thomas|{{search>"John Rogers Thomas" @cobs}}++ (1830-1896), 1858
  *Also known as:
    *The Belle of the Mohawk Vale
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
O, sweet is the vale where the Mohawk gently glides\\
On its clear winding way to the sea,\\
And dearer than all storied streams on earth beside\\
Is this bright rolling river to me;\\
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But sweeter, dearer, yes, dearer far than these,\\
Who charms where others all fail,\\
Is my blue-eyed, Bonnie, Bonnie Eloise,\\
The Belle of the Mohawk Vale.\\
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O, sweet are the moments when dreaming I roam,\\
Thro' my loved haunts now mossy and grey,\\
And dearer than all is my childhood's hallow'd home\\
That is crumb'ling now slowly away;\\
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    *George W. Elliot