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by (Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831 - 1891)

Doubts
 (Sung text for setting by F. Allitsen)
 See original
Language: English 
                            1
All the phantoms of the future, all the spectres of the past,
In the wakeful night came round me sighing, crying, "Fool, beware!
Check the feeling o'er thee stealing! Let thy first love be thy last!
Or, if love again thou must, at least this fatal love forbear!"
           ... 
 
                            2
Now the dark breaks. Now the lark wakes. Now those voices fleet away.
And the breeze about the blossom, and the ripple on the reed,
And the beams, and buds, and birds begin to whisper, sing, or say,
"Love her, love her, for she loves thee!" And I know not which to heed.
           ... 

Composition:

    Set to music by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "Doubts", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs, no. 5, London, New York: Boosey & Co.

Text Authorship:

  • by (Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831 - 1891), "Omens and oracles", appears in Marah, London & New York: Longmans, Green and Co., pages 44-45, first published 1892

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