Last Love Word (Hardy, set by A. Downes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 This is the last; the very, very last!
   Anon, and all is dead and dumb,
   Only a pale shroud over the past,
     That cannot be
    Of value small or vast,
     Love, then to me!

 I can say no more: I have even said too much.
   I did not mean that this should come:
   I did not know 'twould swell to such -
     Nor, perhaps, you -
    When that first look and touch,
     Love, doomed us two!

Authorship

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Andrew Downes (1950-)

Lost Love

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