A popular song from 1857
words and music by Stephen C. Foster
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Werner Tomaschewski:
Lyrics
- While the flow’rs bloom in gladness
And spring birds rejoice
There’s a void in our household of one gentle voice
The form of a loved one hath passed from the light
But the sound of her footfall returns with the night
Refrain
For I see her still in my dreams
I see her still in my dreams
Though her smiles have departed
From the meadows and the streams
I see her still in my dreams
I see her still in my dreams
Though her smiles have departed
From the meadows and the streams
- Though her voice once familiar
Hath gone from the day
And her smiles from the sunlight have faded away
Though I wake to a scene now deserted and bleak
In my visions I find the lost form that I seek
Sung here by Vancha March: