# Despair, Hob.XXVIa:28

- Music: Joseph Haydn (died 1809)
- Words: Anne Hunter (died 1616)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6454673

## The words

The anguish of my bursting heart Till now my  
tongue hath ne’er betray’d, till now my tongue  
hath ne’er betray’d;  
Despair at length re- veals the smart,  
despair at length reveals the smart.  
No time can cure, no hope can aid,  
no hope can aid.  
Despair at length  
reveals the smart,  
No time can cure, no hope can aid.  
My sorrows verging to the grave,  
No more shall pain thy gentle breast,  
no more shall pain thy gentle breast;  
Think, death gives freedom to the slave,  
think, death gives freedom to the slave.  
Nor mourn for me when I'm at rest,  
when I’m at rest.  
Think, death gives freedom to the slave,  
Nor mourn for me, when I'm at rest.  
Yet, if at eve you chance to stray Where silent  
sleeps the peaceful dead, where silent sleeps  
the peaceful dead;  
Give to your kind com- passion way,  
give to your kind compassion way.  
Nor check the tears by pity shed,  
by pity shed.  
Give to your kind  
compassion way,  
Nor check the tears by pity shed.  
Whene’er the precious dewdrop falls,  
I ne’er can know, I ne’er can see,  
I ne’er can know, I ne’er can see;  
And if sad thought my fate recalls,  
and if sad thought my fate recalls,  
A sigh may rise unheard by me, unheard by me.  
And if sad thought  
my fate re- calls,  
A sigh may rise unheard by me.  

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).