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First Line: Your name to know I cared not
Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations


YOUR name to know I cared not
Until I heard you speak,
And when I knew I dared not
Save in silence say it over,
Musing like a lover
On a sweet Mozartian air.

'Twas when I heard you speaking,
Yes, then, I knew I cared;
Your voice the silence breaking
Like a sweet Mozartian air
Woke echoes everywhere,
Quickened music on my tongue.

Like a Mozartian sweetness,
Gay and melancholy,
Subtle, yet deceitless.
That other music's voice I heard not,
Other echoes stirred not,
All was echo of your note.

Not to me you spoke then,
'Twas I that overheard.
But O the sweetness woke then!
As when a loved Mozartian air
Falling on midnight's care
Bids youth and childhood back again.





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