Love-Sight

Song Love-Sight
Artist Philippe Sly
Album Love's Minstrels: Chansons anglaises des 19e et 20e siècles

Lyrics

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[00:47.63] When do I see thee most, beloved one?
[00:58.10] When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
[01:05.22] Before thy face, their altar, solemnize
[01:14.62] The worship of that Love through thee made known?
[01:33.48] Or when in the dusk hours (we two alone)
[01:42.38] Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies
[01:53.04] Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,
[02:01.81] And my soul only sees thy soul its own?
[02:19.88]
[02:35.16] O love, my love! if I no more should see
[02:40.45] Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
[02:48.68] Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,--
[02:58.09] How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope
[03:10.73] The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
[03:20.06] The wind of Death's imperishable wing?