Long ago sweetheart mine

Long ago sweetheart mine,
Roses bloomed as ne'er before,
Long ago the world was young
For us sweetheart.

Fields of velvet, azure skies,
Whisp'ring trees and murm'ring stream;
Long ago Life spread his wings
For us sweetheart.

And now that night is near
Must God's harvest e'en be reaped,
Yet our love, our love shall live
For aye sweetheart!

Authorship

by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908) , title unknown

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by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908) , no title, op. 56 no. 1, published 1898 [voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. 1.

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