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Though you leave me now in sorrow

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“Though you leave me now in sorrow” as printed in The Scottish Minstrel (First Series) (1850).

unknown author: Collected Lyrics Text 18 1850 · historical text
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This text comes from The Scottish Minstrel (First Series), a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Though you leave me now in sorrow,

Smiles may light our love to-morrow,

Doom'd to part, my faithful heart

A gleam of joy from hope shall borrow.

Ah! ne'er forget, when friends are near

This heart alone is thine for ever;

Thou may'st find those will love thee dear,

But not a love like mine, O never!

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Words by unknown author. Historical text published in The Scottish Minstrel (First Series) (1850); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

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The Scottish Minstrel (First Series) (1850), “Though you leave me now in sorrow”

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