# Clasp mine closer, little dear white hand

- Music: Liza Lehmann (died 1918)
- Words: Cora Randall Fabbri (died 1892)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6209608

## 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! . . . .  

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).