====== #1203 - When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Henry W. Petrie|{{search>"Henry W. Petrie" @cobs}}++ (1857-1925), 1902
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
When the busy day is o'er\\
And the sun is sinking low'r,\\
Then I seem to see a dear old southern home;\\
And the long years roll away,\\
Just a child again I play,\\
With my playmates in the woods we used to roam;\\
And at eve my mother there,\\
Listens to me say my pray'r,\\
And I feel her kiss as in the days of old,\\
But now mother's old and gray,\\
Waiting for me far away,\\
Where the sunset turns the ocean's blue to gold.\\
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Oh the old churchbells are ringing,\\
And the mocking birds are singing,\\
As they sang around the place in days of old.\\
And tho' I am far away,\\
All my heart has been today,\\
Where the sunset turns the ocean's blue to gold.\\
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When a lad to manhood grown,\\
With my sweetheart I did roam,\\
Just a country lass, with heart as pure as snow;\\
And again I see the dell\\
And the nook we loved so well,\\
When I told life's old sweet story long ago;\\
But beyond's a grassy knoll,\\
And I hear the churchbell toll,\\
As it sends a message far along the surf,\\
For they gathered far and near,\\
And their hearts were sad and drear,\\
When to laid my sweetheart 'neath the turf.\\
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    *Eva Fern Buckner, 1902