Musical Works - Woo 12.

• Seek not to know. Ballad.

  Dedication: Dedicated to Miss Amy Dolby

Words by: J. Palgrave Simpson

Seek not to know, if all must fade
The richest tint, the brightest flow'r
The proud oak in the leafy glade
The winged gem, that flits its hour.

Ask not why bloom so briefly lives
Ask not why dies the sunset glow
No! prize the gifts, that nature gives;
And why they fade seek not to know

And why they fade seek not to know seek not to know
And why they fade seek not to know.

Seek not to know, if love can change,
Or heart's warm pulse more coldly beat,
If worldly views can souls estrange
And once true eyes no longer meet.

Ask not if e'er there can be ill
Ask not in joy how comes the woe
No! foster soft illusions still;
And if love die seek not to know

And if love die seek not to know seek not to know
And if love die seek not to know!

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