IFFLE--BACHELOR 161
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN? 183
HE AND I 79
HE CALLED HER IN 45
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES 56
HER FACE AND BROW 55
HER HAIR 129
HER WAITING FACE 67
HOME AT NIGHT 122
HOW IT HAPPENED 93
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER 107
ILLILEO 113
JUDITH 75
LAST NIGHT AND THIS 130
LEONAINIE 63
LET US FORGET 60
LOST PATH, THE 83
MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE 87
MY MARY 117
NOTHIN' TO SAY 103
OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, A' 26
OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE, AN 17
OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, THE 68
OUT-WORN SAPPHO, AN 32
PASSING OF A HEART, THE 39
RIVAL, THE 137
ROSE, THE 177
SERMON OF THE ROSE, THE 189
SUSPENSE 136
THEIR SWEET SORROW 72
TO HEAR HER SING 149
TOM VAN ARDEN 138
TOUCHES OF HER HANDS, THE 159
VARIATION, A 151
VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR, A 31
WHEN AGE COMES ON 180
WHEN LIDE MARRIED _HIM_ 125
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE 98
WHEN SHE COMES HOME 59
WHERE SHALL WE LAND? 156
WIFE-BLESSED, THE 115

RILEY LOVE-LYRICS

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AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE

As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of fancy till, in shadowy design,
I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise,
As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes,
And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that seems to yoke
Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke.

Tis a fragrant retrospection--for the loving thoughts that start
Into being are like perfume from the blossom of the heart;
And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury divine--
When my truant fancy wanders with that old sweetheart of mine.

Though I hear, beneath my study, like a fluttering of wings,
The voices of my children, and the mother as she sings,
I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme
When Care has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream.

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In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm
To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm--
For I find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart of mine.

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