Stay, Father, Stay.

Stay, Father, Stay.
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Stay, father, stay, the night is wild;
Leave not alone your dying child.
I feel the Joy hand of death
And shorter, shorter, grows my breath.

Stay, father, stay, alone, alone
With none to cheer or none to mourn,
How can I leave this world of woe
And to a land of spirits go?

Stay, father, stay; oh, leave this night
That mad’ning bowl whose withering bilght
Hus cast so dark a gloom around
The home where joy alone was found.

Stay, father, stay; my mother’s gone
And you and I are left alone,
And from her star-lit home on high
She would weep if I alone should die.

Stay, father, stay, ere morning light
My soul shall wing its upward night,
And, oh, I cannot, cannot die
If you, my father, art not by.

Stay, father, slay, once more I ask.
Oh, count it not a heavy task
To stay with me til ufe shall end,
My last, my only, earthly friend,