Lyrics Oft in the Stilly Night - Eleanor McEvoy

Oft in the Stilly Night

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!
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 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 garland’s dead
And all but he departed!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere Slumber’s chain has bound me
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me