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2 We wreath no bowl to drink a gay good bye,
For tears would fall unbidden in the wine,
And while reflected was the mournful eye
The sparkling surface e'en would cease to shine.
Then fare, fare well;

Once more, once more,

The ocean's swell

Now hides my native shore.

3 See where yon star its Diamond light displays,-
Now seen now hid behind the swelling sail,--
Hope rides in gladness on its streaming rays,
And bids us on, and bribes the fav'ring gale.
Then Hope we bend

In joy to thee;

And careless wend
Our way acroos the sea.

SWISS BOY.

Moscheles

Con Spirito.

Come arouse thee, arouse thee, my brave Swiss Boy! Take thy

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ruddy beam, The kine are thronging to the stream, Come a

rouse thee, arouse thee, my brave Swiss Boy! Take thy

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2 Am not I, am not I, say, a merry Swiss Boy,
When I hie to the mountain away?
For there a Shepherd maiden dear,
Awaits my song with list'ning ear,
Am not I, am not I, then a merry Swiss Boy,
When I hie to the mountain away?

3 Then at night, then at night, oh! a gay Swiss Boy!
I'm away to my comrades away.

The cup we fill, the wine is pass'd
In friendship round, until, at last,

With 'good night,' and 'good night,' goes the happy Swiss Boy

To his home and his slumbers away.

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OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT.

Stevenson.

Affettuoso.

04

Oft in the stilly night, When slumber's chain has bound me,

2

Fond mem'ry 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 has bound me, Sad mem'ry brings the light of

other days a

round

me.

2 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,

When slumber's chain has bound me,

Sad mem'ry brings the light of other days around me.

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