Part 2 — BYE-GONE HOURS.

WORDS BY THE

HON. MRS. NORTON.

MUSIC BY

MRS. PRICE BLACKWOOD.

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Philadelphia: John F. Nunns, 184 Chesnut Street.

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’Tis sad, ’tis sad to think upon

The joyous days of old—

When ev’ry year that wearies on,

Is number’d by some friendship gone!

Some

kindly heart grown cold!

Could those days but come again

With their thorns and flowers!

I would give the hopes of years!

For those by-gone hours!

’Tis sad—’tis sad to number o’er

The faces glad and gay,

Which we have loved! Some smile no more,

Around us as they did of yore!

And some have turn’d away!

Could those days, &c.

’Tis sad—’tis sad to come again,

With changed heart and brow,

To our youth’s home, where none remain

Of those who made it blessed then—

Who leave it lonely now!

Could those days, &c.

Oh! little things bring back to me

The thoughts of by-gone hours.

The breath of kine upon the lea,

The murmur of the mountain bee,

The scent of hawthorn flow’rs!

Could those days, &c.