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We shall meet, but we shall miss him |
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There will be one vacant chair |
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We shall linger to caress him |
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While we breathe our evening prayer; |
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When a year ago we gathered |
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Joy was in his mild blue eye, |
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But a golden chord is severed |
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And our hopes in ruin lie. |
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We shall meet, but we shall miss him |
| [01:04.215] |
There will be one vacant chair |
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We shall linger to caress him |
| [01:15.503] |
While we breathe our evening prayer. |
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At our fireside, sad and lonely, |
| [01:37.921] |
Often will the bosom swell, |
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At remembrance of the story |
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How our noble Willie sell; |
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How he strove to bear our banner |
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Through the thickest of the fight, |
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And uphold our country's honor |
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In the strength of manhood's night. |
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We shall meet, but we shall miss him |
| [02:23.651] |
There will be one vacant chair |
| [02:28.869] |
We shall linger to caress him |
| [02:35.029] |
While we breathe our evening prayer. |
| [02:50.766] |
True, they tell us wreaths of glory |
| [02:57.531] |
Ever more will deck his brow, |
| [03:01.950] |
But this soothes the anguish only |
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Sweeping o'er our heartstrings now. |
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Sleep today, Oh early fallen, |
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In thy green and narrow bed, |
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Dirges from the pine and cypress, |
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Mingle with the tears we shed. |
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We shall meet, but we shall miss him |
| [03:42.249] |
There will be one vacant chair |
| [03:48.222] |
We shall linger to caress him |
| [03:54.093] |
While we breathe our evening prayer. |
