The old homestead : song
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- Title
- The old homestead : song
- Publication year listed
- 1912
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- Public domain eBook
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The old homestead : song
Author: Davis, M. Gillmor
Year: 1912
[Verse 1] In the shadows of the gloaming / Oft in fancy back we roam / In the dim and quiet twilight / Oft we think of childhood’s home / And the garden where the roses / Bloom’d so sweet in June’s fair hours [.] / Oft in fancy now we wander / ‘Neath the verdant leafy bow’rs [.] [Chorus] Back thro’ years of joy and sorrow / To the friends we had to part / Fancy brings again the homestead / That lies green within the heart. [Verse 2] Glance we at the open windows / As we gently pass them by / And before us rise rise [sic] a vision / And a tear starts to the eye / And backward, backward thoughts do wander / To the glen and leafy shade / And we think of home and mother / Where affections first we staid [.] [Chorus repeats] [Verse 3] Stop we gently [.] [D]oes a whisper / Reach us thro’ the quiet air / No! ‘tis but the nightwinds sighing / ‘Mid the trees and flow’rs so fair / And the rippling brooklet answers / As it meanders on its way / Sounds oft heard before in childhood / At the closing of the day [.]