by Agness Greene Foster (1863 - 1933)
You
Language: English
What is this "You" I love so well Whose face and form forever dwell Within my heart? Is it the face that makes you "You," With smiles that thrill me through and through Though we're apart? Or is't the form which comes to view, That seems so much a part of you I love so dear? Ah, no! Were both some other thing, Still if to me your heart 'twould bring, O never fear — I'd know it well; since all that's best. And sweet and pure, that in you rest. Is mind above. For when God thought of something true, His angels came straightway to you — The "You" I love.
Confirmed with Contemporary American Poets, Boston : The Stratford Company, 1928, p.108
Text Authorship:
- by Agness Greene Foster (1863 - 1933), ""You"" [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):
- by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), "You", published 1909 [ high voice and piano ], Cincinnati : Willis Music Co.
Score: Sibley Music Library [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]
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