| Lyrics: | Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Mem'ry brings the
light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood's years,
The
words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful
hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad
Mem'ry brings the light
Of other days around me.
When I remember all
The
friends, so link'd 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 slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Mem'ry brings the light
Of other days
around me |
