I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, / Dying when fair things are fading away.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence makes the heart go fonder
absence heart
It was a dream of perfect bliss, / Too beautiful to last.
dream beautiful perfect bliss
She wore a wreath of roses, / The night that first we met.
night roses
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, / Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
absence beauty heart grow
living fair things dying butterfly
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
wall
We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.
thought crowd
Why don't the men propose, mamma, / Why don't the men propose?
men
Oh! No! We never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
word speak lips
Gaily the Troubadour / Touched his guitar.
The rose that all are praising/ Is not the rose for me.
rose
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! Naught but misery brings!
wealth power
I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady A recitative from Tancredi, And something about Palpiti! Sing forte when first you begin it, Piano the very next minute, They'll cry What expression there's in it! Don't sing English ballads to me!
music
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
trust
Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night! There's danger on the deep.
danger
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