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"Hard Times Come Again No More" (song)

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times come again no more!

It's the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times come again no more. No more!
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door.
Though their voices are silent their pleading looks will say:
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

Tis a sign that is wafted across the troubled wave,
Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore,
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,
Hard times, hard times come again no more. No more!
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

- Stephen Foster (1854)