Is it true? or am I only dreaming?
I hold her letter, blurred with her tears,
She tells me all her hopes and fears,
Calls me to hear her own lips tell
[All]1 the love her pride concealed too well;
     For she loves me.
Hasten, oh night! away,
Melt into the crowning day,
When I shall hold her close and fast,
My love, my own at last,
     For she loves me!

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¹ note: this word is omitted in the poem shown at the beginning of the score, but appears in the music.

Text Authorship:

• by Frank Hyde  [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 Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "Rapture", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs, no. 7, London, New York: Boosey & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2012-08-12
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