 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 264 pages
...voices as they sounded by our own fireside long ago. And then came back " the light of other days." " The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken." And then came stealing down the aisles the solemn... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pages
...stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken, The eyed that shone, now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night, &c.... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1881 - 188 pages
...of oth - er days a - round me,— I've seen a - round me fall, like leaves in win - try wea - ther, The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, the words of love then spok - en, The I feel like one who treads a - lone some ban - quet hall de - sert - ed, Whose eyes... | |
 | George Bradford Bartlett - 1889 - 738 pages
...night, ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Fond memory brings the light of other days around me — The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken — The eyes that shone, now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken — Thus, in the stilly night, ere slumber's chain... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1892 - 44 pages
...in song, story, oration, the buried but unforgotten past,— past youth, past love, past joy,— " The smiles, the tears Of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes which shone now dim and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken." And, what is surprising, it is not age... | |
 | Frederick Zuchtmann - 1903 - 248 pages
...mo. Jk^LJU FINE. Sad \ mem - 'ry brings the light Of oth • er days a - round me. J ТТ^Р t T-ir The smiles, the tears, Of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken, The JCalFine. N _. N - N»V. * V .. У У 9 ,'d and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ; eyes that shone,... | |
 | Harvard Club of San Francisco (Calif.) - 1909 - 132 pages
...night, ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Fond mem'ry brings the light of other days around me, — The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, the words of love then spoken, The eyes that shone, now dimm'd and gone, the cheerful hearts now broken: Chorus. Thus, in the stilly night, ere slumber's... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1909 - 264 pages
...commemorates, in song, story, oration, the buried but unforgotten past,—past youth, past love, past joy,— " The smiles, the tears Of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken." And, what is surprising, it is not age or decay... | |
 | Lady Gregory - 1922 - 340 pages
...stilly night Ere slumber's chain hath bound me Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me. The smiles, the tears, of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken — The eyes that shone, now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. Thus in the stilly night — ere slumber's chain... | |
 | 1860 - 132 pages
...stilly ni^ht, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond mem'ry brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken, The eye that shone, now dimmed and gone, "When I remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen... | |
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Oft in the stilly night, ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Fond memory brings the light of other days around me — The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken — The eyes that shone, now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts... 