Oft in the Stilly Night - John McCormack
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumbers chain has bound me
Fond memry brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles,
The tears of boyhoods years
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
Now dimmd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumbers chain has bound me
Sad memry brings the light
Of other days around me.
When I remember all
The friends, so linkd together
I've seen around me fall
Like leaves in wintry weather
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted
Whose lights are fled
Whose grlands dead
And all but he departed!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumbers chain has bound me
Sad memry brings the light
Of other days around me.