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Mind Not Tho' Daylight.

By Thomas Moore

Topics: classic

Mind not tho' daylight around us is breaking,--     Who'd think now of sleeping when morn's but just waking?     Sound the merry viol, and daylight or not,     Be all for one hour in the gay dance forgot.     See young Aurora up heaven's hill advancing,     Tho' fresh from her pillow, even she too is dancing:     While thus all creation, earth, heaven, and sea.     Are dancing around us, oh, why should not we?     Who'll say that moments we use thus are wasted?     Such sweet drops of time only flow to be tasted;     While hearts are high beating and harps full in tune,     The fault is all morning's for coming so soon.

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About Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) was an Irish poet, singer, and songwriter best known for "Irish Melodies" (1808–1834), a collection of songs including "The Last Rose of Summer" and "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms." He was the most popular poet of his era in the British Isles.

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