Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)

• 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 dimm'd and gone,
• The cheerful hearts now broken!
• Thus, in the stilly night,
• Ere slumber's chain hath 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 garlands 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.