Constancy
Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) · Words: Harold Boulton (1859–1935)
My heart that burns like the noontide Has
waited the long day through, And still in the
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The words
My heart that burns like the noontide Has
waited the long day through, And still in the
gloaming I long for your coming,
As flow’rs faint for the dew,
I long, I long for your coming, As flow’rs
faint for the dew.
Oh! come in the cool, the cool of the ev’ning,
Like a soft wind out of the west;
Oh! come like the swallow that flies o’er the
fallow, Homeward at night to the nest,
Homeward at night to the nest.
The nightingale in the garden Cries “Look,
look, look, truant love;” “The pale stars
glimmer, the moonbeams shimmer and glide
through the leaves above, glide through the
leaves above.” Ah me! Ah me!
Ah me, but the midnight passes,
I linger and know not why; Though you come
never, I hope for ever, A lover must hope or
die, For a lover must hope or die;
Though you come never, I hope for ever,
For a lover must hope or die.
About this song
- Music
- Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Harold Boulton (1859–1935) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1891, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:11
- Its source files it as
- 12 New Songs
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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