The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour Lyrics

The happiest day-the happiest hour

Mine eyes shall see-have ever seen

The brightest glance of pride and power

I feet have been

The happiest day-the happiest hour

My seared and blighted heart hath known

The highest hope of pride and power

I feel hath flown

Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween

But they have vanished long, alas!

The visions of my youth have been

But let them pass

The happiest day-the happiest hour

Mine eyes shall see-have ever seen

The brightest glance of pride and power

I feet have been

And pride, what have I now with thee?

Another brow may ev'n inherit

The venom thou hast poured on me

Be still my spirit!

But were that hope of pride and power

Now offered with the pain

Ev'n then I felt-that brightest hour

I would not live again

The happiest day-the happiest hour

Mine eyes shall see-have ever seen

The brightest glance of pride and power

I feet have been

For on its wing was dark alloy

And as it fluttered-fell

An essence-powerful to destroy

A soul that knew it well

The happiest day-the happiest hour

Mine eyes shall see-have ever seen

The brightest glance of pride and power

I feet have been

And pride, what have I now with thee?

Another brow may ev'n inherit

The venom thou hast poured on me

Be still my spirit!

But were that hope of pride and power

Now offered with the pain

Ev'n then I felt-that brightest hour

I would not live again