Fly Not Yet

DESCRIPTION: "Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure, like the midnight flow'r, That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night." The singer begs the night to stay, wondering why he must "find such beaming eyes awake"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1846 (Moore-IrishMelodies-1846)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Moore-IrishMelodies-1846, pp. 11-12, "Fly not yet" (1 text)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 194, "Fly Not Yet" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Colleen Bawn Songster, Robert M. DeWill, 1873 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon songster collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress online), p. 29, "Fly Not Yet" (1 text)
Roud #31439
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4274), "Fly Not Yet," J. PItts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 16(96d) (Pitts, but barely legible); also Harding B 36(24), "Fly Not Yet," H. Wardman (Bradford), n.d. (link broken); also Harding B 36(21), "Fly Not Yet," T. Wilkinson (Manchester), n.d. (link broken)
File: HMHS194A

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