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Thou Bidst Me Sing.

By Thomas Moore

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Thou bidst me sing the lay I sung to thee         In other days ere joy had left this brow;     But think, tho' still unchanged the notes may be,         How different feels the heart that breathes them now!     The rose thou wearst to-night is still the same         We saw this morning on its stem so gay;     But, ah! that dew of dawn, that breath which came         Like life o'er all its leaves, hath past away.     Since first that music touched thy heart and mine,         How many a joy and pain o'er both have past,--     The joy, a light too precious long to shine,--         The pain, a cloud whose shadows always last.     And tho' that lay would like the voice of home         Breathe o'er our ear, 'twould waken now a sigh--     Ah! not, as then, for fancied woes to come,         But, sadder far, for real bliss gone by.

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Thomas Moore

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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