Oft in the Stilly Night

	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.

	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 banquethall 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.