Love wakes and weeps 
While Beauty sleeps ; 
Oh! for music's softest numbers 
To prompt a theme 
For Beauty's dream, 
Soft as the [pillow]1 of her slumbers! 

Through groves of [palm]2 
Sigh gales of balm ; 
Fire-flies on the air are wheeling ; 
While through the gloom 
Comes soft perfume, 
The distant beds of [flowers]3 revealing. 

Oh! wake and live! 
No dreams can give 
A shadowed bliss the real excelling ; 
No longer sleep 
From lattice peep, 
And list the tale that love is telling!

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¹ Strickland: "perfume"
² Strickland: "palms"
³ Strickland: "ferns"

Text Authorship:

• by Walter Scott, Sir (1771 - 1832), "Love wakes and weeps", appears in The Pirate, chapter 23 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Hugh Blair (1864 - ?), "Love wakes and weeps", published 1928 [ SSC chorus a cappella ], partson [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eliza Flower (1803 - 1846), "Serenade", published 1831? [ chorus and piano ], from Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, no. 13, London : Jos. Alfred Novello [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Love wakes and weeps", 1899 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Marcellus Higgs , "Love wakes and weeps", published 1844? [ chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Love wakes and weeps", 1910 [ ATB chorus a cappella ], from Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lily Strickland (1887 - 1958), "Love wakes and weeps", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Samuel Webbe (1740 - 1815), "Love wakes and weeps", 1821 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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