Two Songs

Song Cycle by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912)

1. Since we parted  [sung text not yet checked]

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Since we parted yester eve,
I do love thee, love, believe,
Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,
One dream deeper, one night stronger,
One sun surer -- thus much more
Than I loved thee, love, before.

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Copied from For Love's Sweet Sake. Selected Poems of Love in all Moods, edited by George Hembert Westley, Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1899, page 10

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2. Absence  [sung text not yet checked]

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Not in my life but yours I live;
And from myself I seem to be
As far away, dear fugitive,
As you are far from me.

Unlit by you, no light have I,
A fainting lamp that's fed by none!
The earth seems left without a sky
The sky without a sun.

Come back! come back! And with you bring
All that with you is gone away,
Warmth, light, life, love, and everything
That stays but where you stay!

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