A popular song from around 1880
Words by Theo. Marzials
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- I gaze at the sun-burning plain
And I long, I long for the cool again
I am sad and faint with the noonday heat
And ’tis oh! I would I were near my sweet
Oh! come, my beloved, come
Oh! heart of my heart, my own
Oh! come, my beloved
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 drift or 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! come, my beloved, come
I am wary waiting for thee, alone
But oh! if 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 tamrind trees
Away to awake my love
Who sleeps in the hammock there
If only to breathe at 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! come, my beloved, come
I am weary waiting, and all alone