Love's Hour 1912 Signora Luisa Tetrazzini

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Feb 2004

Love is like the rose, dear heart,
that opens with the morn,
It's fragrance on the sunlit air
for one short day is borne.
A.......h!
Alas, before the shades of night
are drawn across the sky,
each dewy, blushing petal falls
upon the ground to die.
A.........h!

Come, let us drink deep in love's hour!
E'en now it is flying, 'twill pass;
One moment the bloom's on the flow'r,
and falling petals we grasp;
Let love's hour be full with gladness,
unshadow'd by sorrow or strife,
for sweet as the rose
is the love that one knows
in the glorious morn of life,
for sweet as the rose
is the love that one knows
in the glorious morn of life!

Youth, dear heart, will fly away,
just like the fragile rose;
It's morn, it's noon, it's night, it's day
lend shadows to its close.
A.......h!
Then think not of tomorrow, sweet,
be happy while you may.
Refuse all thought of sorrow,
and love me, dear heart, today.
A.........h!

Come, let us drink deep in love's hour!
E'en now it is flying, 'twill pass;
One moment the bloom's on the flow'r,
and falling petals we grasp;
Let love's hour be full with gladness,
unshadow'd by sorrow or strife,
for sweet as the rose
is the love that one knows
in the glorious morn of life,
for sweet as the rose
is the love that one knows
in the glorious morn of life!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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Love's Hour 1912
Poem by Rida Johnson Young
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright 1912 by G. Schirmer
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 23 February 2004 at 17.24
in association with Doug Grierson
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The Poem by Rida Johnson Young. Music by Victor Herbert.
Written for, Sung by, and Dedicated to Signora Luisa Tetrazzini
Victor Herbert Publication: New York: G. Schirmer, 1912.
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