No. 13 - Duet - Dick and Constance - "Do you remember Love."

Lyrics by Harry B. Smith

[Constance:] Do you recall that song
we used to sing?
[Dick:] Yes, I remember well
that dear old song of ours.
[Constance:] What memories that song
to me can bring!
You have forgotten, I declare.
This is the air, this is the air.
[Dick:] How long a time it seems,
How long it seems.
[Constance:] Oh, dear first love of olden days,
Come back in dreams to me.
Altho' my heart a vagrant strays,
It turns again to thee,
As one who travels distant ways,
when ever he may chance to roam,
At ev'ning homeward turns his gaze;
Where thou art is home.

[Dick:] Gone for ever, ay, for ever.
Vanished are youth's happy dreams;
To my heart returning never,
Wasted all hope in life seems.
Love youth; and the pure joy of home may be thine,
may be thine for aye.
[Constance:] And they yet may be...
[Dick:] But outcast am I,
Sad the fate that is mine...
[Constance:] Hope is thine, hope is thine,
Ah yes, whatever may thee betide,
Faithful I will bide, e'er to thee.
[Dick:] Joy is all vanished,
[Constance:] One true friend
[Dick:] Hope must be banished.
[Constance:] Thou hast still,
[Dick:] All happy dreams of my youth fled for aye.
[Constance:] One true friend
[Dick:] Joy is all vanished,
[Constance:] Thou hast still,
[Dick:] Hope must be banished.
[Constance:] It is I.
[Both:] I will be faithful and true to thee.
[Constance:] One is true
[Dick:] One friend still is true
[Constance:] still to you.
[Dick:] faithful ever.
[Constance:] When e'er you hear that song,
O think of dear days of old.
Oh, dear first love of olden days...
[Dick:] Could hope and youth come back
again, dear!
Alas I a vagrant ever must be straying.
Ah, if she cared for me.
As one who travels distant ways,
[Constance:] Wherever he may chance to roam,
At even homeward turns his gaze.
[Dick:] The past is my heart's own true home.
[Constance:] One friend is true,
[Dick:] One friend is true,
O trusted friend and tried,
One friend is faithful still to me.