# Only

- Music: Virginia Gabriel (died 1877)
- Words: Unknown
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6603244

## The words

so I must strive to for -  
mine for ever and aye.  
so I must strive to for -  
mine for ever and aye.  
so I must strive to for -  
mine for ever and aye.  
Only a face at the window,  
Only a face, nothing more;  
Yet the look in the eyes, as they meet mine,  
Still comes to me o’er and o’er Only a word,  
of greeting, Only a word that was all;  
Yet all day, in my heart it echoed,  
Like the sound of an angel’s call.  

Only a smile of welcome,  
Only a smile, as I pass’d;  
But that smile will still be remember’d As  
long as my life shall last Only a woman,  
you tell me! Only a woman! to thee;  
But there’s naught that this mere earth  
containeth, Half so dear as this woman to me.  

Only her love I ask for,  
Only her love, and yet,  
The sweet boon I cannot hope for,  
And so I must strive to forget Only a word  
lowly spoken, Only a “yes” would she say;  
It would give the sweet face at the window,  
To be mine forever and aye.  

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).