Daughter of Egypt, veil thine eyes
Music: Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942) · Words: Bayard Taylor
Daughter of Egypt, veil thine eyes!
I cannot bear their fire; Nor will I touch with
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The words
Daughter of Egypt, veil thine eyes!
I cannot bear their fire; Nor will I touch with
sacrifice Those altars of desire.
For they are flames that shun the day,
And their unholy light Is fed from natures
gone astray In passion and in night.
The stars of Beauty and of Sin, They burn amid
the dark,
Like beacons that to ruin win The fascinated
bark.
Then veil their glow, lest I forswear The hopes
thou canst not crown,
And in the black waves of thy hair,
My struggling manhood drown!
About this song
- Music
- Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Bayard Taylor
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1909, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:02
- Its source files it as
- 2 Songs, Op.16
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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