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62 POPULAR SONGS.
" Oh ! Susan, Susan, lovely dear.
My vows shall ever true remain ;
Let me kiss off that falling tear,
We only part to meet again.
Change as ye list, ye winds, my heart shall be.
The faithful compass that still points to thee."
The boatswain gave the dreadful word,
The sails their swelling bosoms spread,
No longer must she stay aboard ;
They kissed — she sighed — he hung his bead,
Her lessening bark unwilling rows to land,
*' Adieu !" she cried, and waved her lily hand *
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.
Sung by ilir H. Phillips, in the " Maid of Artois."
Music by Ba'fe. — Words by Bunn.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past ;
For grief, with heavy wing, hath shaded
The hopes too bright to last.
The world in morning's mantle clouded
Shines forth with purer rays ;
But the heart ne'er feels, in sorrow shrouded.
The light of other days.
But the heart, &c.
The leaf which autumn tempests wither —
The birds, which then take wing,
When winter's winds are past, come hither,
To welcome back the Spring.
*This song was compLnett on the bright eved Mrs
Mountfort, and we know oi no uaulical ditty moie beau-
tiful.