Love's Old Sweet Song

 

Once in the dear dead days beyond recall,

When on the world the mists began to fall,

Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng

Low to our hearts Love sang an old sweet song;

And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam,

Softly it wove itself into our dream.

Unspoken Love
(2011)
Sam Sidders
Fine Art America

Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low,

And the flickering shadows softly come and go,

Tho' the heart be weary, sad the day and long,

Still to us at twilight comes Love's old song,

Comes Love's old sweet song.

Even today we hear Love's song of yore,

Deep in our hearts it dwells forevermore.

Footsteps may falter, weary grows the way,

Still we can hear it at the close of day.

So till the end, when life's dim shadows fall,

Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low,

And the flickering shadows softly come and go,

Tho' the heart be weary, sad the day and long,

Still to us at twilight comes Love's old song,

Comes Love's old sweet song.

"Love's Old Sweet Song"
(1884)
 Composed by James Lynam Molloy 
 Lyrics by G. Clifton Bingham