Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1840
Lyrics
It was a sabbath morn,
The bell had chimed for church,
And the young and gay were gathering
Around the rustic porch.
There came and aged man,
In a solider's garb was he;
And gazing round the group,he cried, "Do none remember me?"
The Veteran forgot
His friends were changed or gone;
The many forms around his there
As children he had known:
He pointed to the spot
Where his dwelling used to be;
Then told his name, and smiling said, "You now remember me."
A las! none knew him there,
He pointed to a stone
On which the name he breath'd was traced,
A name to them unknown.
And then the old man wept, "I am friendless now" cried he,
"Where I had many friends in youth Not one remembers me!"
Recommended Citation
Knight, Joseph Philip and Bayly, Thomas Haynes Esqr., "Veteran: A Ballad" (1840). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 101.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/101
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
The Veteran
A Ballad
The Poetry by Thomas Haynes Bayly Esqr.
The Music by Joseph Philip Knight.
Boston, Published by Parker & Ditson, 135 Washington Street.
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