Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine And health and youth possess'd me; My goblets blush'd from every vine And lovely forms carress'd me; I sunn'd my heart in beauty's eyes And felt my soul grow tender; All earth can give, or mortal prize Was mine of regal splendour
I strive to number o'er what days Remembrance can discover Which all that life or earth displays Would lure me to live over Thеre rose no day, therе roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd: And not a trapping deck'd my power That gall'd not while it glitter'd
The serpent of the field, by art And spells, is won from harming; But that which coils around the heart Oh! who hath power of charming? It will not list to wisdom's lore Nor music's voice can lure it; But there it stings for evermore The soul that must endure it
David Diamond - Saul Thou whose spell can raise the dead Bid the prophet's form appear 'Samuel, raise thy buried head! King, behold the phantom seer!' Earth yawn'd; he stood the centre
David Diamond - All is vanity Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine And health and youth possess'd me; My goblets blush'd from every vine And lovely forms carress'd me; I sunn'd my heart in
David Diamond - Bid adieu Bid adieu, adieu, adieu Bid adieu to girlish days Happy love is come to woo Thee and woo thy girlish ways - The zone that doth become thee fair The snood upon thy yellow