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Canon

Language: English

 Oh, the days are gone, when beauty bright
 My heart's chain wove;
 When my dream of life, from morn till night
 Was love, still love.
 New hope may bloom, and days may come of milder, calmer beam,
 But there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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