Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Moore. 17791852584. The Light of Other Days
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 | 5 |
Of boyhood’s years, | |
The words of love then spoken; | |
The eyes that shone, | |
Now dimm’d and gone, | |
The cheerful hearts now broken! | 10 |
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 | 15 |
The friends, so link’d together, | |
I’ve seen around me fall | |
Like leaves in wintry weather, | |
I feel like one | |
Who treads alone | 20 |
Some banquet-hall deserted, | |
Whose lights are fled, | |
Whose garlands dead, | |
And all but he departed! | |
Thus, in the stilly night, | 25 |
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me. | |
Sad Memory brings the light | |
Of other days around me. |