O moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone! O elm-leaves dark and dewy, The very same ye seem, The low wind trembles through ye, Ye murmur in my dream! O river, dim with distance, Flow thus forever by, A part of my existence Within your heart doth lie! O stars, ye saw our meeting, Two beings and one soul, Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whole! O happy night, deliver Her kisses back to me, Or keep them all, and give her A blisslul dream of me!
Five Songs , opus 7
by Arthur Shepherd (1880 - 1958)
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2. Nocturne [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), "Song", from Poems, first published 1844
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