1983


Never Pain to Tell Thy Love

Composed by Daron Aric Hagen
Text by William Blake

Echo’s Songs Song Collection


"Never Pain to Tell Thy Love" is the first song of Daron Aric Hagen's song cycle Echo's Songs.

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Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
by William Blake

Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears —
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveller came by
Silently, invisibly —
He took her with a sigh.

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