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 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