HOUR OF FOND DELIGHT.

COMPOSED BY ALEXANDER LEE.

Presented by LEE & WALKER, 188 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

What an hour is this,

Joy and love o’erflowing,

Ev’ry sense of bliss,

O’er our feelings throwing;

Thy sweet image, love,

Round my heart is twining,

Brightly from above,

The silver moon is shining:

Moonlight! Moonlight!

Hour of ev’ry fond delight!

Moonlight! Moonlight!—

Hour of ev’ry fond delight!

SECOND VERSE.

All is silent now,

Philomel thou hearest,

From yon cypress bough,

Sounds to lovers dearest;

Daylight be for those

Who for wealth aspiring,

Give me sweet repose,

While the moon is shining.

Moonlight! &c.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious typesetting and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

In the first article NEW YORK PRINTING MACHINE, PRESS, AND SAW WORKS., the footnote was added to clarify the meaning of a sentence which may be confusing to some modern day readers.

page 592, believed to the real.” ==> believed to be real.”

page 600, The butcher’s looked: a ==> The butchers looked: a

page 609, in livery where already ==> in livery were already

page 656, in them, and yet its all ==> in them, and yet it’s all

page 659, queen, its from the ==> queen, it’s from the

page 665, By Caroline Chesboro’. ==> By Caroline Chesebro’.

[End of Graham’s Magazine, Vol. XL, No. 6, June 1852]