American Old Time Song Lyrics: 13 Can You Then Love Another
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 13
Can You Then Love Another?
Copyright, 1880, by W. H. Rieger
Published by permission.
Can you then love another?
Was then the past a dream?
Love but a withered blossom
Floating a-down life's stream?
Once we were blest and happy,
Heedless of cloud or storm;
Roses of sweet affection
Bloomed in the sunlight warm.
Say, are the smiles forgotten,
Once very dear to you?
Can you then love another,
Slighting a heart so true?
Can you then love another?
Why did we ever meet?
Why were your smiles of gladness
Ever to me so sweet?
Gone is the dream of beauty.
Gone like a fallen star;
Day after day we're drifting,
drifting apart so far.
Oh, must I be forgotten,
Once very dear to you?
Can you then love another,
Slighting a heart so true?
Can you then love another?
Think of our happy past,
Think of the vows we plighted,
Ever in life to last.
Am I so soon forgotten.
Cast like a flower aside?
Have I from mem'ry faded,
Once all your love and pride?
Bring to my soul the sunlight,
Bring to my life the dew;
Can you then love another,
Slighting a heart so true?