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Publication Information

Published in Majors and Minors (1895)

Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin

Musical Settings

Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, An African Love Song (voice and piano) (January 1901)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, An African Love Song (high voice and piano) (January 1897)

Harry G. Bull, An African Love Song (voice and piano) (January 1954)

Text

My heart to thy heart,

My hand to thine;
My lip to thy lips,
Kisses are wine
Brewed for the lover in sunshine and shade;
Let me drink deep, then, my African maid.

Lily to lily,
Rose unto rose;
My love to thy love
Tenderly grows.
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain,
Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.


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