# O tuneful Voice, Hob.XXVIa:42

- Music: Joseph Haydn (died 1809)
- Words: Anne Hunter (died 1821)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6474359

## The words

O tuneful voice!  
I still deplore  
thy accents, I still de- plore,  
Which, though  
heard no more,  
Still vibrate on my heart;  
still vibrate  
on my heart.  
The accents which, though heard no more,  
Still vibrate  
on my heart. still vibrate on my heart,  
still vibrate on my heart.  
In Echo’s cave I long to dwell  
And still to hear that sad farewell,  
When we were forc’d to part,  
And still to hear that sad farewell,  
When we  
were forc’d  
to part, were forc’d  
to part.  
Bright Eyes!  
O that the task were mine  
To guard the liquid fires  
that shine,  
And round your orbits play!  
To watch them  
with a Vestal’s care  
To feed with smiles a light so fair  
That it might  
ne’er decay,  
that it might  
ne’er decay.  
To feed with smiles a light so fair  
That it might  
ne’er de- cay,  
that it might  
ne’er de- cay, that it might ne’er de- cay,  
that it might ne’er de- cay, that it might  
ne’er decay. that it might ne’er de- cay.  

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).