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Its first performance was at a
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The song was not published in the composer's lifetime, but is now in the
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is a song with piano accompaniment written by the
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85: The little eyes.
69: The little eyes?
79: No storm, we know, may change the blue
74: Such light as never heaven let through
81: Soft heaven that haply death descries
72: Who knows but on their sleep may rise
83: No tears, like these in ours, bedew
65: Light other than of dawning skies,
67: What new life now lights up anew
76: To lighten earth from Paradise?
63: The little eyes that never knew
17:"Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light"
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179:Solo Songs, with piano
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