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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 linked 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 garlands dead,
 And all, but he, departed!
Thus, &c.

 

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CHARLIE IS MY DARLING.

  Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling,
  O Charlie is my darling, the young Chevalier.
'Twas on a Monday morning, right early in the year,
When Charlie came to our town, the young Chevalier
As he came marching up the street the pipes played low and clear;
And a' the folk came running out to meet the Chevalier
O Charlie is my darling, &c.

With Highland bonnets on their heads and claymore bright and clear,
They came to fight for Scotland's rights and the young Chevalier;