# Since thou, o fondest and truest

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Robert Bridges
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6205639

## The words

Since thou, o fondest and truest,  
Hast loved me best and longest, And now with  
trust the strongest the joy of my heart  
renewest;  
Since thou art dearer and dearer,  
While other hearts grow colder,  
And ever, as love is older, more lovingly  
drawest nearer.  
Since now I see in the measure of all my giving  
and taking, Thou wert my hand in the making,  
the sense and soul of my pleasure;  
The good I have ne’er  
repaid thee In heav’n I pray be recorded,  
And all thy love rewarded By God,  
thy master that made thee.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).