Bid me not forget

Haydn, Joseph

Bid me not forget thy smile,

Nor the radiance of thine eye;

Think, alas! how hard the toil!

Mem'ry, then, my love must die.

Thee I view in ev'ry bloom;

Hear in groves thy voice divine;

Thus each scene, where'er I roam,

Paints the charms that once were mine.