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With Pleasures Have I Passed My Days
 


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With Pleasures Have I Passed My Days

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The following poem is scored for music in the source text.

With pleasures have I pass'd my days,
And ev'ry minute bless'd,

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No—secret sigh controll'd my ease,
No wish disturb'd my rest.
Thus void of care my hours have flown,

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For still I found my heart my own!
But now, O Love, I own thy reign,
I find thee in my heart,

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I know full well the pleasing pain,
'Twas Daphne threw the dart,
I saw, I heard, I felt the flame,
For Daphne smil'd and spoke,
O Cupid, take another aim,

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Or else my heart is broke!
To Daphne let the dart be thrown,
And make her heart no more her own!