I saw the moon rise clear

I saw the moon rise clear
O'er hills and vales of snow,
Nor told my fleet reindeer
The track I wish'd to go.

Yet quick he bounded forth,
For well my reindeer knew,
I've but one path, one path on earth,
The path that leads to you!

The gloom that winter cast
How soon the heart forgets
When summer brings, at last,
Her sun that never sets!

So dawn'd my love for you,
So dawn'd my love for you,
So fix'd through joy and pain,
Than summer sun more true,
'Twill never set again.

by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) , "I saw the moon rise clear", from The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq., Vol. IV, published 1819

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

by Dora Estella Bright (1863-1951) , "Finland Love Song", published 1889 [voice and piano], from Twelve Songs
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Finland Love Song", op. 70 no. 2, published 1910 [voice and piano], from A Wreath of Songs, no. 2.
by Charles Beach Hawley (1858-1915) , "Finland Love Song", published 1907. [voice and piano]
by John W. Slatter , "I saw the moon rise clear", published 1884. [tenor or baritone and piano]

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