by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Song
Language: English
I saw, from yonder silent cave, Two Fountains running, side by side, The one was Mem'ry's limpid wave, The other, cold Oblivion's tide. "Oh Love!" said I, in thoughtless mood, As deep I drank of Lethe's stream, "Be all my sorrows in this flood Forgotten like a vanish'd dream!" But who could bear that gloomy blank, Where joy was lost as well as pain? Quickly of Mem'ry's fount I drank, And brought the past all back again; And said, "Oh Love! whate'er my lot, Still let this soul to thee be true -- Rather than have one bliss forgot, Be all my pains remember'd too!"
Confirmed with The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850, page 267. Appears in Evenings in Greece, in First Evening.
Authorship:
- by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Song", appears in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in Evenings in Greece, in 1. First Evening [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Viktor von Arentsschild (1819 - 1859) , "Lied" ; composed by Bernhard Ernst Scholz.
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