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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady A recitative from Tancredi, And something from "Palpiti!" Sing forte when first you begin it, Piano the very next minute, They'll cry "What expression there's in it!" Don't sing English ballads to me!

I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.

And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

We met--'twas a crowd.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word. - Thomas Haynes Bayly,

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met! And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labor'd words could speak.

Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?