====== #186 - Oft in The Stilly Night ======
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  *Composer:
    *traditional Scottish
    *arr. ++Sir John Stevenson|{{search>"Sir John Stevenson" @cobs}}++ (1761-1833)
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
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 childhood's years,\\
The words of love then spoken;\\
The eyes that shone,\\
Now dimm'd and gone,\\
The cheerful hearts now broken!\\
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Thus, in the stilly night,\\
Ere slumber's chain hath bound me,\\
Sad mem'ry brings the light\\
Of other days around me. When I remember all\\
The friends, so link'd 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!\\
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    *++Thomas Moore|{{search>"Thomas Moore" @cobs}}++ (1779-1852), 1815