A popular song from 1895
Words and music by Wm. M. Hutchinson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- The shadows lie across the dim old room
The firelight glows and fades into the gloom
While memory sails to childhood’s distant shore
And dreams, and dreams of days that are no more
Refrain:
Sweet dreamland faces, passing to and fro
Bring back to memory days of long ago
Murmuring gently thro’ a mist of pain
“Hope on, dear loved one, we shall meet again”
- Once more I see across the distant years
A face long gone with all its smiles and tears
Once more I press a tender, loving hand
And with my darling ‘neath the old oak stand
Ending:
But all I loved are gone
And I alone in life
To wait, and wait, and wait
‘Till Death shall end the strife
Until once more I join
The hearts that loved me best
Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary be at rest