# Constancy

- Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (died 1935)
- Words: Harold Boulton (died 1935)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6403636

## 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.  

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).