A popular song from 1888
Words by Theo. Marzials
Music by Mrs. L. Moncrieff
The sheet music:
Alternate sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- I gaze all day on the burning plain
I long, I long for the cool again
I am sad and faint with the noonday heat
And I would! I would, I were near my sweet
Oh! come, my beloved, come
Oh! heart of my heart, my own
Oh! star of my twilight come
I am weary waiting for thee, alone
But oh, if my heart had wings
To fly like a bluebird far
Away and away to the end of the day
Where the cool and the palm trees are
Away to awake my love
Who swings in her hammock there
If only to breathe at her sweet, sweet ear
Or to die like a kiss on her hair - Will no cloud gather, will no breath blow
From the far, far hill, and the far, faint snow
The sun burns white in the noon above
And my heart is burnt like a flame with love
Oh! come, my beloved, come
Oh! Heart of my heart, my own
Oh! star of my twilight, come
I am weary waiting for thee, alone
But oh! that my heart had wings
The wings of the evening breeze
To fly far away to the end of the day
To the cool and the tamarind trees
Away to awake my love
Who swings in the hammock there
If only to breathe on her sweet, sweet ear
Or to die like a kiss on her hair
Oh! come my beloved, come
Oh! heart of my heart, my own
Oh! star of my twilight, come
I am weary waiting, and all alone
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: