| Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875. |
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| T. Moore |
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| CCXXV. The Light of Other Days |
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| 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 | 5 |
| Of boyhood's years, | |
| The words of love then spoken; | |
| The eyes that shone, | |
| Now dimm'd and gone, | |
| The cheerful hearts now broken! | 10 |
| Thus in the stilly night | |
| Ere slumber's chain has bound me, | |
| Sad Memory brings the light | |
| Of other days around me. | |
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| When I remember all | 15 |
| The friends so link'd together | |
| I've seen around me fall | |
| Like leaves in wintry weather, | |
| I feel like one | |
| Who treads alone | 20 |
| Some banquet-hall deserted, | |
| Whose lights are fled | |
| Whose garlands dead, | |
| And all but he departed! | |
| Thus in the stilly night | 25 |
| Ere slumber's chain has bound me, | |
| Sad Memory brings the light | |
| Of other days around me. | |
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