The Singers' companion, a choice selection of fashionable songs/My lute it has but one sweet song

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MY LUTE IT HAS BUT ONE SWEET SONG,

Ballad Sung by Miss Love. Written, and Music composed, by J. Augustine Wade, Esq.-The idea of this Song is acknowledged, by its author, to have been derived from the Greek Poet Anacreon.

My lute it has but one sweet song,
⁠And that is love, dear love,
No other sounds will e'er belong
⁠To its soft voice, but love.
⁠From morn's first ray
⁠To set of day,
Where'er I chance to rove,
⁠Its chords will sigh
⁠No melody
But love, dear love.
⁠Sometimes 'tis sad,
⁠Sometimes 'tis glad,
As tears or smiles may prove;
⁠Sometimes it tells
⁠Of last farewells,
But always still of love!
⁠To change its theme
⁠From passion's dream
I would, but 'twill not rove,
⁠Nor cease to sigh
⁠The melody
Of love, dear love.

Of knights and chivalry I tried
⁠To sing in lofty strain;
My heroes were the young, the fair.
⁠My field, a bower or grove,
⁠My battle's noise,
⁠The low sweet voice
Of love, dear love!