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by Alvin Hovey King

The nightingale's song
Language: English 
I sing to my love, the rose,
With all my soul and heart,
For there's naught so sweet in all the world,
As to love, to love, to love.

I sing to my love, the rose,
And the rose sings back to me,
The sweetest song that e'er will be:
"For I love, I love, I love."

I sing to my love, the rose,
As I gaze in her deep red heart,
For her heart is free for all to see,
With its love, its love, its love.

I sing to my love, the rose,
With love for the theme of my song,
For I love the rose and the rose loves me,
So we love, we love, we love.

I sing to my love, the rose,
With all my soul and heart,
For there's naught so sweet in all the world,
As to love, to love, to love.

I sing to my love, the rose,
And the rose sings back to me,
The sweetest song that e'er will be:
"For I love, I love, I love."

Text Authorship:

  • by Alvin Hovey King  [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 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "The nightingale's song", op. 28 no. 4, published c1899, from Songs from Vineacre, no. 4. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-08
Line count: 24
Word count: 177

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