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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.


Text 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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