[bksvol-discuss] Re: Drink to me only...
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:21:45 -0800 (PST)
Quite different from the Tom Lehrer song about loving
you when you're old. grin
Cindy
--- Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Boy those old song writers really knew how to pull
> out all the stops.
> Here you go, and you can find the midi version of
> the tune if you google it.
>
> Thomas Moore, 1779-1852 from his Irish Melodies
> (1808-1834)
> Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
> Which I gaze on so fondly today
> Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms
> Like fairy gifts fading away.
> Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art
> Let thy loveliness fade as it will
> And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
> Would entwine itself verdantly still.
> It is not while beauty and youth are thine own
> And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear
> That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known
> To which time will but make thee more dear.
> No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets
> But as truly loves on to the close
> As the sunflower turns to her God when he sets
> The same look which she turned when he rose.
>
>
> Written by Thomas Moore, not the saint but a man who
> wrote this for his
> wife because she had been in a terrible sledding
> accident and had
> disfigured her face. He wanted her to know that
> what had happened
> didn't matter at all. It sound so blunt when told
> like that, but
> that's the origin of the song.
>
> Ann P.
>
>
>
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