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Respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. OH! SPEAK TO ME ONCE MORE! Written by W. Dexter Smith Jr. MUSIC BY HENRI CROMWELL.
Boston. G. D. Russell & Company 126 Tremont. OppTark St.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by G.D. Russell & Company in the Clerk's office of the Dist court of Mass.
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"Oh! SPEAK TO ME ONCE MORE"!*
Words by W. Dexter Smith Jr. Music by Henri Cromwell.
Andante. con espressione
Voice.
1. Oh! speak to me once 2. Oh! speak to me once 3. Oh! speak to me once
Style of a chant.
PIANO
more, And let thy blessing fall Upon thy wife and
more, Say but a single word, 'Twill be the sweetest
more, Nay, all my tears are vain, The lips of one we
- The exclamation of Mrs. LINCOLN, as she bent over her dying husband.
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child, Who love thee more than all; Tell
sound That we have ever heard; 'Twill
love Will never speak again; Yet
us we still are dear Oh! hear me, I implore, Smile
be a song of love, No mortal heard before, Oh!
we shall meet again Upon the golden shore, And
on us once again, Oh! speak to me once more!
listen to my prayer, Oh! speak to me once more!
one, we love so well, Shall speak to us once more!
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CHORUS. SOPRANO.
Yet we shall meet again, Upon the golden
ALTO. TENOR.
Yet we shall meet again, Upon the golden
BASS. PIANO.
shore, And one, we love so well, Shall speak to us once more!
shore, And one, we love so well, Shall speak to us once more!