# Daughter of Egypt, veil thine eyes

- Music: Eleanor Everest Freer (died 1942)
- Words: Bayard Taylor
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6598677

## 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!  

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).