The bold independence that labor shall buy Shall strengthen our hands and forbid us to sigh; Away, far away, let us hope for the best, And build up a home in the land of the west! To the west! &c. LILLY DALE. H. S. THOMPSON. "TWAS a calm still night, and the moon's pale light, Shone soft o'er hill and vale; When friends mute with grief, stood around the death-bed, Of my poor lost Lilly Dale. Oh! Lilly, sweet Lilly, dear Lilly Now the wild rose blossoms o'er her little green grave, 'Neath the trees in the flow'ry vale. Her cheeks that once glowed, with the rose tint of health, By the hand of disease had turned pale, And the death-damp was on the pure white brow, Of my poor lost Lilly Dale. Oh! Lilly, etc. I go, she said, to the land of rest, I must tell you where, near my own loved home, You must lay poor Lilly Dale. 'Neath the chestnut tree, where the wild And the stream ripples forth through the vale, When the birds shall warble their songs in spring, There, lay poor Lilly Dale. CONSTANTINOPLE. KIND friends, your pity now bestow, For I loved a gay young colonel, who From Constantinople came, Constantinople, Constantinople, Constantinople the colonel came. Chorus.- C-O-N, with a con, S-T-A-N, with a stan, With a constan, T-I ti, with a constanti, N-O no, with a no, with a constantino, P-L-E, with a pull, Constantinople. I met the colonel at the ball, He said he was a Turkish Prince, name So I accepted the young colonel, Constantinople the colonel came. One evening while we sat at tea, I soon found he a swindler was, Who from Constantinople came; THE DEAREST SPOT. THE dearest spot of earth to me, The fairy land I've long'd to see, There, how charm'd the sense of hear There, where hearts are so endearing, I've taught my heart the way to prize. I've learn'd to look with lover's eyes, There, where vows are truly plighted, NORA O'NEAL. On! I'm lonely to-night love, without you, Like the beam of the star when 'tis smiling, Is the glance which your eye can't conceal, And your voice is so sweet and beguiling That I love you, sweet Nora O'Neal. Chorus.-Oh! don't think that ever I'll doubt you, My love I will never conceal, Oh! I'm lonely to-night, love without you, My darling, sweet Nora Oh the nightingale sings in the wildwood, As if every note that he knew Was learned from your sweet voice in childhood, To remind me, sweet Nora, of you |