OH, I WOULD BE ALONE!
Oh! I would be alone
In the deep twilight, when the day
Fades from the dewy earth away,
And rests its shadow o'er the deep,
Silent and soft as childhood's sleep;
When breezes die along the plain,
And hushed the voice of choral strain;
When clouds in lazy languor lie,
As if they slept in that pure sky,
Where the deep purple and the red
Their rival splendours brightly shed,
Till the dark shadows of the night
Conceal their glories from our sight.
Oh! I would be alone,
When the fond memories of the past
Their trembling shadows o'er me cast,
In the deep twilight, when the day
Fades from the dewy earth away,
And rests its shadow o'er the deep,
Silent and soft as childhood's sleep;
When breezes die along the plain,
And hushed the voice of choral strain;
When clouds in lazy languor lie,
As if they slept in that pure sky,
Where the deep purple and the red
Their rival splendours brightly shed,
Till the dark shadows of the night
Conceal their glories from our sight.
Oh! I would be alone,
When the fond memories of the past
Their trembling shadows o'er me cast,
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