Full Lyrics
We’ll sing a song of bygone days
As hand in hand we rove,
When memory’s moonlight softly plays
Around the home we love.
And all that once was bright and fair
Shall waken to the view,
Ere life was shadowed with a care,
And lips and hearts were true.
When not a kindred tie was given
To dim the raptured gaze,
And Earth. a mirror seemed of Heaven,
In happy bygone days.
O happy days, sweet bygone days,
Your beauty still is ours,
We trace your old love haunted ways,
We cull your choicest flowers.
We call up dear familiar tones,
Each vacant seat we fill,
And all the souls most treasured ones
Are present with us still.
Their footsteps, like the angels, seem
Where memory’s moonlight plays;
’Tis bliss to linger then and dream
Of happy bygone days.
