Foster's Melodies, No. 33
"Lula Is Gone" (1858)
Song
Written and Composed
(Poetry and Music) by
Stephen Collins Foster, 1826-1864

1.
With a heart forsaken I wander
In silence, in grief and a lone,
On a form departed I ponder,
For Lula, sweet Lula is gone.
Gone when the roses have faded,
Gone when the meadows are bare
To a land by orange blossoms shaded
Where summer ever lingers on the air.

CHORUS
Lula, Lula, Lula is gone;
With birds her bright smiles
To sunny lands have flown.
When day breaketh gladly
My heart waketh sadly,
For Lula, Lula is gone.

2.

Not a voice awakens the mountains,
No gladness returns with the dawn,
Not a smile is mirrored in the fountains,
For Lulam sweet Lula is gone.
Day is bereft of its pleasures,
Night of its beautiful dreams,
While the dirge of well remembered measures
Is murmuered by the ripple on the streams.

(CHORUS)

3.
When I view the chill-blighted boweres
And roam o'er the snow covered plain
How I long for spring's budding flowers
To welcome her sweet smiles again.
Why does the earth seem forsaken?
Time will this sadness remove;
At her voice the meadows will awaken
To verdure, sweet melody and love.

(CHORUS)