The Singers' companion, a choice selection of fashionable songs/Oft in the stilly night
OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT.
Words by Moore Music,—"March to the battle field."
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory 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 dimmed and gone,
The cheerful vow now broken.
Thus in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad memory 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 garland's dead,
And all but me departed.
Thus in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
of other days around me.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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