From the 1931 musical “The Cat and the Fiddle”.
Words by Otto Harbach.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
The breeze kissed your hair
Knowing you were fair
And all the night seemed to woo
I wanted, too, but I didn’t dare
You filled me with despair
One moment there I sat with you
Then vanished from your view
Burthen
One moment alone
That’s all we have known
And yet it seemed paradise
Had opened it’s golden portal
There in your lovely eyes
One moment alone
‘Twas then I was show
A glimpse of an angel fair
Too much for a lovely mortal
That’s why it ended there
One word or two tenderly spoken
Gay little laugh, sad little sigh
Then all old dreams suddenly broken
Ev’rything changed under the sky
One moment alone
Is all that we own
And yet in its joy and pain
Was builded a hope eternal
It might be lived again