"The Heart Bow'd Down" (Vocal). By Michael William Balfe (1808-70). 
From his opera 'The Bohemian Girl', 1843.

This online recording opens with a number from Benedict's Lilly of Killarney (The Rose of Erin). Like Sir Arthur Sullivan and Benedict, Balfe is indebted to the French [bad word] and Italian influences that dominated the 19th-century English musical stage.

"The Heart Bow'd Down" was published many times in America and is a good example of the early Victorian senitmental ballad.

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hopes will cling;
To thought and impulse, while they flow,
That can [bad word] bring.  
The mind will in its worst despair,
Still ponder o'er the past;
On moments of delight that were
Too beautiful to last. 
With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;
For mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own. 
To long departed years extend
Its visions with them flown;
For mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own.