1983


Thou Wouldst Be Loved

Composed by Daron Aric Hagen

Echo’s Songs Song Collection


"Thou Wouldst Be Loved" is the ninth song of Daron Aric Hagen's song cycle Echo's Songs. The poem is by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Thou Wouldst Be Loved
by Edgar Allan Poe

Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.

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