Clasp mine closer, little dear white hand
Music: Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) · Words: Cora Randall Fabbri (1871–1892)
Clasp mine closer, little dear white Hand -
Clasp mine fastly, till it grows so cold,
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The words
Clasp mine closer, little dear white Hand -
Clasp mine fastly, till it grows so cold,
All your tender pressures will be vain To
awake an answ’ring touch again,
Till it lieth underneath the mould.
In Life’s storm, and in Life’s sun,
’tis you Who have guided me throughout the
land — Straightly —
where the path was most obscure,
Purely,
for who touches you is pure — Little Hand,
O little lovèd Hand.
Paradise without you could not be.
Paradise without you could not be.
I will wait outside till I be- hold You
appear.
Clasp mine closer,
little Hand__
Clasp it closer,
closer! . . . .
About this song
- Music
- Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Cora Randall Fabbri (1871–1892) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1910, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 3:28
- Its source files it as
- 5 Little Love Songs
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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