Oft, In The Stilly Night Comments

When we were in college and had to recite, this was a favorite, more so now at age 91. So few of us are now left......the banquet hall deserted.......but I have fond memories to sustain me. Thanks to mean old Prof. Haaggertyfor exposing us to the finer things we would enjoy in later years. .

This poem will probably mean very little to the younger person, but I am nearing retirement age, and the words ' The eyes that shone now dimmed and gone, the cheerful hearts now broken' refering to parents, and friends falling ' like leaves in wintry weather' are so poingant, I do think 'Oft in the stilly night.