I [look'd]1 into the midnight deep,
And saw the steadfast stars,
True sentinels that never sleep
Beyond Earth's prison bars;
I [look'd]1 in my beloved's eyes,
And saw her radiant soul,
Still steadfast in the [skies]2
Of love's remotest goal.

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¹ Chadwick: "looked"
² Chadwick: "heav'nly skies"

Text Authorship:

• by W. M. Chauvenet  [author's text not yet checked 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):

• by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "In my beloved's eyes" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "In my beloved's eyes", 1898, published 1902 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone ], from Three Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 43