• 1 - Oh, what so subtle as the spell The silvery moonlight weaves?
  • Oh, what so sad and what so glad, And what so soon deceives.
  • 2 - A vision of the long ago-- Long years of pain between;
  • A mocking dream of happier days-- A veil of silver sheen.
  • 3 - A passing gleam of falling stars-- An idle summer's dream;
  • The sudden waking of a heart-- Things are not as they seem.
  • 4 - Oh, silver moon, indeed you hold The secrets of the heart;
  • And none can know and none can guess The mystery of thy art.
  • 5 - A silver length of rippling waves, A glance from happy eyes;
  • A strain of music low and sweet-- The heart in rapture lies.
  • 6 - Yet, ah, how faithless are the vows Made 'neath the summer moon;
  • As changing as the falling rays That fade away as soon. ~~
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