(Recitative)
Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love
Acis would ne'er from Galatea rove
(Aria)
As when the dove laments her love
All on the naked spray
When he returns, no more she mourns
But loves the live-long day
Billing, cooing, panting, wooing
Melting murmurs fill the grove
Melting murmurs lasting love
Oh didst thou know was written by John Gay & George Frideric Handel.