Language: English 
"Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells,
Lonely and lost to light for evermore,
Save when to thine my heart responsive swells,
Then trembles into silence as before.

"There, in its centre, a sepulchral lamp
Burns the slow flame, eternal — but unseen;
Which not the darkness of Despair can damp,
Though vain its ray as it had never been.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "Deep in my soul", op. 53 no. 2 (1908), stanzas 1-2 [ ssaattbb chorus ]

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