BEN BOLT.
Thomas Dunn English. Nelson Kneass.
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1 . Oh! don't you re - mem-ber sweet Al - ice, Ben Bolt,
2. Un - der the hick- o - ry tree, Ben Bolt,
3. And don't you re - mem-ber the school, Ben Bolt,
4. There is change in the things I loved, Ben Bolt,
Sweet Al - ice whose hair was so brown,
Which stood at the foot of the hill,
With the mas - ter so kind and so true.
They have changed from the old to the new.
Who wept with de - light when you gave her a smile.
To - geth - er we've lain in the noon - day shade.
And the shad - ed nook by the run - ning brook,
But I feel in the depths of my spir - it the truth.
And trem-bled with fear at your frown? In the
And list - ened to Ap - ple - ton's mill. The
Where the fair - est wild flowers grew? Grass
There nev - er was change in you.
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old church - yard, in the val - ley, Ben Bolt,
mill - wheel has fal - len to piec - es, Ben Bolt,
grows on the mas - ter's grave, Ben Bolt,
Twelve - months twen - ty have passed, Ben Bolt,
In a cor - ner ob - scure and a - lone;
The raf - ters have turn - bled in,
The spring of the brook is dry,
Since first we were friends — yet I hail
They have fit - ted a slab of the gran - ite so gray. And sweet
And a qui-et that crawls round the walls as you gaze. Has
And of all the boys who were school - mates then, There are
Thy presence a bless - ing, thy friendship a truth, Ben
Al - ice lies un - der the stone, - der the stone,
fol - lowed the old - en din, - en din.
on - ly you and I, and I.
Bolt of the salt sea gale, sea gale.