Three Love Letters

Song Cycle by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912)

1. A letter  [sung text not yet checked]

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Your portrait is what I want:
   Where I may fondly trace
With passionate pleasure, each beauty and treasure,
 And wonder, and charm, and grace;
For try, try as I may, love, when you are away,
    I cannot remember clearly, --
    It's because I love you dearly, --
 The magic of your face.

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2. Sweet sorrow  [sung text not yet checked]

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Nay, out of your dear sight is but the more in mind, love,
  Enforcéd partings noble traits the more disclose;
Yet, I have looked away all likeness from your picture,
  As one may smell away the perfume from a rose.

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3. As cooling dew

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Total word count: 90