This song hasn't made it into the Digital Tradition yet. The lyrics above are almost the same as these, but these I can document, and my source has a tune.
-Joe-


OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT
(Thomas Moore)

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 hearts now broken!

Chorus
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 garlands dead,
And all but he departed.
Chorus



from Heart Songs: Melodies of Days Gone By, Chapple Publishing Company, 1909

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