I Cannot Sing the Old Songs

DESCRIPTION: "I cannot sing the old songs I sung long years ago For heart and voice would fail me... I cannot sing the old songs Or dream those dreams again." "Perhaps when earthly fetters shall Have set my spirit free My voice may know the old songs For all eternity"
AUTHOR: Charlotte Alington Barnard ("Claribel") (1830-1869)
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Oh-How-Is-That-For-High-Songster)
KEYWORDS: music death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Oh-How-Is-That-For-High-Songster, p. 44, "I Cannot Sing the Old Songs" (1 text)
Roud #37130
NOTES [12 words]: For brief background on Claribel, see the notes to "Come Back to Erin." - RBW
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File: OHTH044

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