From the opera “La Sonnambula”, 1850.
Adapted to the English stage by Henry R. Bishop.
Music by Bellini.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
As I view these scenes so charming
With fond remembrance my heart is warming
Of days long vanish’d, of days long vanish’d
Oh my breast, my breast is fill’d with pain
Finding objects that still remain
While those days, while those days
While those days come not again
As I view these scenes so charming
With fond remembrance of days long vanish’d
Oh my breast is fill’d with pain
Finding objects that still remain
While those days come not again
While those days come not again
While those days, while those days
While those days come not again
Ne’er come again, ne’er come, ne’er come again
Maid, those bright eyes, my heart impressing
Fill my breast with thoughts distressing
By recalling an earthly blessing
Long since dead and pass’d away, pass’d away
She was like thee, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties, sunk her beauties to decay
She was like thee, ere Death sunk her beauties to decay
Ere Death, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties, sunk her beauties to decay
She was like thee, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties to decay
Gentle maiden, Ah! what resemblance
Yes those bright eyes, my heart impressing
Fill my breast with thoughts distressing
By recalling an earthly blessing
Long since dead, and pass’d away, pass’d away
She was like thee, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties, sunk her beauties to decay
She was like thee, ere Death sunk her beauties to decay
Ere Death, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties, sunk her beauties to decay
She was like thee, ere Death oppressing
Sunk her beauties to decay, to decay
She was like thee, ere Death sunk her beauties to decay
To decay, sunk to decay, sunk to decay
Sunk to decay