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In the Lovely Summer Night

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The following poem is scored for music in the source text

In the lovely summer night
Softest music breathes around me,
Softest mem'ries have found me,
In the lovely summer night.
A star doth send his light,
A blazing diamond, pearl beset,
The brightest where the bright are met,
In the lovely summer night.
In the lovely summer night,
Sharp-eyed sorrow waits to seize me,
Death from sorrow to release me,
In the lovely summer night.