Love is the light of the world, my dear (Lyrics of Love and Sorrow)
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Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of Love and Laughter (1903)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Arthur Bergh, Love is the Light of the World (medium voice and piano) (January 1926)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Love is the light of the world, my dear (Lyrics of Love and Sorrow)" (1903). Dunbar Music Archive. 228.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/228
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Love is the light of the world, my dear,
Heigho, but the world is gloomy;
The light has failed and the lamp down hurled,
Leaves only darkness to me.
Love is the light of the world, my dear,
Ah me, but the world is dreary;
The night is down, and my curtain furled
But I cannot sleep, though weary.
Love is the light of the world, my dear,
Alas for a hopeless hoping,
When the flame went out in the breeze that swirled,
And a soul went blindly groping.