Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed music > Composite music volumes containing different issues of Thomson's octavo collection of the songs of Burns and Sir Walter Scott > Volumes 1-2 > Select melodies of Scotland, interspersed with those of Ireland and Wales

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O WELCOME HOURS OF SOCIAL NIGHT !
THE MELODY BY G. THOMSON — THE VERSES BY PROFESSOR SMYTH, 1830.
O welcome hours of social night !
The feast, the dance, the song ;
And love, with dreams of rosy light,
And pleasure's merry throng ;
Yes, welcome to my longing eyes,
The forms, the visions gay,
That save me from the cares that rise,
When comes the colder day.
Who counts the hour ? what's time to me ?
When friends I love are near ;
Whose lyre, whose song, whose mirth and glee,
Whose very look can cheer.
Oh ! may not hours be sometimes found,
Oh I sometimes sure they may,
Worth days and years that circle round
In dull life's tick-tick way.
Then leave me not I O fly not yet !
Ye Syrens, graces, dear ;
The sweetest hours in all the set
Are those now coming here : —
The little hours — a smiling train —
That move on noiseless feet,
And clear the world from care and pain,
When night and morning meet.