Dream Love 1908 "The Prima Donna"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Aug 2007
2007

Dreaming, I have in seeming lived in a fairy land!
Castles had I, and vassals had I,
to kiss my hand!
My lands stretching from sea to sea!
Islands sending their gold to me!
Pleasure there, without measure!
Morning or night, all was delight!
To me came then to woo me,
Lovers, a score or more!
Laughed I, gaily and chaffed I,
when they devotion swore!
Yet, one diff'rent from all the rest,
filled my heart with a vague unrest!
Till my soul to me whispered:
"It is he!
He alone! Thy love! Thine own!"

Ah, but alas!
I found 'twas only dreaming!
What came to pass I found
was naught but seeming!
And yet the one that in my dream I love,
will someday come to me, I know,
and his devotion prove!

Ah me! How sadly do I long to meet him!
He'll see how gladly with a song I'll greet him!
So to my dream love I will constant be,
till thro' the world he searches and at last,
at last comes back to me!
Come! Come! Whene'er thy search is o'er,
come back to me!
Come, oh, come!
For I wait and watch my love for thee!
Come! Come!
The fondness of my dreaming
help me prove!
Come, oh, come
for I wait and watch for thee, my love!
As thou art mine!
I'm thine!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Dream Love 1908
from "The Prima Donna"
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
© MCMVIII by M.Witmark & Sons.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 19 August 2007 at 3.50pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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