"The Lily Bells" (10 Apr 1852)
Song.
Sung by
Mrs. Laura A. Jones.
Words & Music
by Lydia B. Smith.
Arranged for the Guitar
by William Dreesler

New York: William Hall and Son, 230 Broadway
Plate No. 1857
[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M1.A12V vol. 47 Case Class original bound volumes
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1820-1860 
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division. 
DIGITAL ID 
sm1852 501980 
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1852.501980]

1. Within the trembling Lily, bells 
Beneath their leaves so green, 
Full many a merry fairy dwells, 
By mortal eyes  unseen;
And yet, sometimes at evening hour 
I’ve heard a mystic strain, 
Of music creep from flow’r to flower, 
Sung by that elfin  train.

[REFRAIN for verses 1 and 2]
Within the trembling lily bells, 
Beneath their leaves so green, 
Full many a merry fairry dwells, 
By  mortal eyes unseen.

2. In all my changeful moods they seem, 
An echo still to find;
Their voices haunt me like a dream, 
Borne on the sumner wind;
They breathe an ans’ring blissful tone 
When hearts with hope beat high, 
And when dejections blight we own, 
They give back sigh for sigh.

3. Those ivery petals vibrate oft, 
When every breeze is still, 
’Tis fairy laughter clear and soft 
Their snowy cups which thrill;
But when the blossoms fade and fall 
in withering decay, 
You’ll hear those  elfin minstrells call, 
Come, come away.

[REFRAIN]
Fall’n are aour beaueous Lily bells, 
Soil’d are her leaves so green, 
The bee has rifled all her cells, 
Farewell sweet lily Queen.