I've accedently deleted music from my library, is there a way to revert this?

I was managing a playlist on my itunes. I wanted to keep the same list but remove existing songs. I selected the songs and hit the delete button. I thought it asked me if i wanted to keep the music on my itunes, i thought i selected yes. But apprently i did not. I am wondering where is the delete folder stored for itunes. Or is there a way to undo this? I am missing a huge selection of songs. Any input would be nice.

Thanks Kristopher4Mac,
I did refer back to the all purchases in my itunes folder. Its hard to tell what is missing at the moment but it is not all downloaded. This playlist had close to 500 songs, right now i am only seeing 500. It is going to take sometime for me to realize what songs i'm missing. I just wondered if there was a folder in itunes that showed what was deleted.

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