Absent Stuart Burrows 1971

Composer: John W. Metcalf
Words: Catherine Young Glen
1899

Lyrics Sung:

Sometimes between long shadows on the grass
The little truant waves of sunlight pass.
My eyes grow dim with tenderness the while,
Thinking I see thee, Thinking I see thee smile

2
And sometimes in the twilight gloom apart,
The tall trees whisper, whisper heart to heart.
From my fond lips the eager answers fall,
Thinking I hear thee, Thinking I hear thee call

Lyrics not sung:

3
And sometimes too when I am all alone,
I miss the absent, absent from my home.
Your loving smile and sweetness I recall,
Thinking I hear thee, thinking I hear thee call

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Three things I ask of thee before we part,
One tiny corner of your loving heart,
One tender kiss and promise to be true.
That's all I ask love, that's all I ask of you.

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God's blessings guide and guard you night and day,
And may His guidance guide you on your way,
Until we meet on that bright eternal shore.
There we shall meet love, meet there to part no more