The National Song Book - Online Music Book
250 Folk-songs, Carols, And Rounds with sheet music and lyrics
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AS SLOW OUR SHIP.
(THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.) |
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2. When round the bowl of vanished years
We talk, with joyous seeming, With smiles that might as well be tears,
So faint, so sad their beaming; While mem'ry brings us back again
Each early tic that twined us, < )h, sweet's the cup that circles then
To those we've left behind us. |
3. And when, in other climes, we meet
Some isle or vale enchanting, Where all looks flow'ry, wild and sweet,
And nought but love is wanting; Wc think how great had been our bliss.
If Heav'n had but assigned us To live and die in scenes like this.
With some we've left behind us. |
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\. As travelers oft look back at eve,
When eastward darkly going, To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing; So, when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consign'd us, We" turn to catch one fading ray
Of joy that's left behind us.
The first, second^ and last lines of this air arc slightly simplified from the more ornate and difficult original version; but there is \v also for this easier version. 1 |
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II. 4868. |
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