Ten Favourite Songs/Oft in the stilly night

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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 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.